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HR 1594 115th Congress House Government Operations and Politics Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

To ensure that the percentage increase in rates of basic pay for prevailing wage employees shall be equal to the percentage increase received by other Federal employees in the same pay locality, and…

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To ensure that the percentage increase in rates of basic pay for prevailing wage employees shall be equal to the percentage increase received by other Federal employees in the same pay locality, and for other purposes.

Introduced: March 17, 2017 See on congress.gov
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Mar 17, 2017
Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Mar 17, 2017
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

This bill prohibits: (1) any prevailing rate employee in a federal agency, between January 1 and September 30, 2017, from being paid an amount exceeding specified limits resulting from an applicable wage survey adjustment; and (2) the percentage increase in wages paid to a prevailing wage employee in FY2017 from being less than the percentage increase in the basic pay of other federal employees in the same pay locality.

What's happening now March 17, 2017

Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

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Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 1 Republican 1
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Cole, Tom
Oklahoma · Mar 21, 2017
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Norton, Eleanor Holmes
District of Columbia · Mar 17, 2017
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1594: To ensure that the percentage increase in rates of basic pay for prevailing wage employees shall be equal to the percentage increase received by other Federal employees in the same pay locality, and for other purposes.. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-1594/
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"H.R. 1594: To ensure that the percentage increase in rates of basic pay for prevailing wage employees shall be equal to the percentage increase received by other Federal employees in the same pay locality, and for other purposes.." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-1594/.
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H.R. 1594, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-1594/.
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[H.R. 1594: To ensure that the percentage increase in rates of basic pay for prevailing wage employees shall be equal to the percentage increase received by other Federal employees in the same pay locality, and for other purposes.](https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-1594/)
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