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S 422 117th Congress Senate

Senate Shared Employee Act

Official title: A bill to allow Senators, Senators-elect, committees of the Senate, leadership offices, and other offices of the Senate to share employees, and for other purposes.

Introduced: February 24, 2021 Introduced by: Klobuchar, Amy Democratic · Minnesota See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 14 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 23, 2021
Became Public Law No: 117-10.
Apr 23, 2021
Signed by President.
Apr 22, 2021
Presented to President.
Apr 16, 2021
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Apr 16, 2021
On passage Passed without objection. (text: CR H1873-1874)
Apr 16, 2021
Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed without objection.(text: CR H1873-1874)
Apr 16, 2021
Ms. Scanlon asked unanimous consent to take from the Speaker's table and consider.
Apr 16, 2021
Considered by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR H1873-1874)
Mar 1, 2021
Held at the desk.
Mar 1, 2021
Received in the House.
Mar 1, 2021
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Feb 24, 2021
Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S868-869; text: CR S868-869)
Feb 24, 2021
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S868-869; text: CR S868-869)
Feb 24, 2021
Introduced in Senate
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 Latest action April 23, 2021

Became Public Law No: 117-10.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Senate Shared Employee Act

This bill authorizes Senators and Senate committees, leadership offices, and other offices to share employees, and it establishes certain rules to govern this procedure.

These rules include (1) requiring the office that authorizes any travel for official business to pay for the cost of the travel, and (2) setting the basic rate of pay for an individual serving in more than one of certain qualifying positions to be the total basic pay received by the individual from all such positions.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 422: Senate Shared Employee Act. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-422/
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"S. 422: Senate Shared Employee Act." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-422/.
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S. 422, 117th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-422/.
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