Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Presidential Accountability for Yearly Submission of The United States’ Budget Act” or the “PAYSTUB Act”.
Presidential Accountability for Yearly Submission of The United States’ Budget Act
A BILL
To amend title 31, United States Code, to limit the use of Federal funds for the salaries or expenses of political employees if the President’s annual budget submission to Congress is late, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Limitation on use of Federal funds for political employee salaries and expenses if President’s budget is late
Section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(j)
“(1) If the budget under subsection (a) is not submitted to Congress on or before the first Monday in February of a year, for service by any political appointee during the period beginning on the first Tuesday of February of such year and ending on the date the budget is submitted, no Federal funds may be obligated or expended for the salary or expenses of the political employee.
“(2) Each political employee whose salary and expenses are not paid by operation of paragraph (1) shall be paid for the period the limitation under such paragraph was in effect at the employee's standard rate of pay, at the earliest date possible after such period ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates.
“(3) In this subsection, the term “political employee” means any individual—
“(A) occupying a position described under sections 5312 through 5316 of title 5 (relating to the Executive Schedule);
“(B) serving under a noncareer appointment in the Senior Executive Service, as defined under paragraph (7) of section 3132(a) of such title; or
“(C) occupying a position in the executive branch of the Government of a confidential or policy-determining character under schedule C of subpart C of part 213 of title 5, Code of Federal Regulations.”