S 1561
117th Congress
Senate
Government Operations and Politics
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Wages and earnings
Locality Pay Equity Act of 2021
Introduced: May 11, 2021
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 11, 2021
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
May 11, 2021
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Locality Pay Equity Act of 2021
This bill (1) prohibits the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) from defining more than one local wage area for prevailing rate employees within a pay locality, except with respect to the pay locality designated as Rest of United States; and (2) requires the OPM to ensure that this bill shall not have the effect of reducing the rate of basic pay for an individual serving as a prevailing rate employee.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Committees of jurisdiction
1