S. 26 119th Congress Senate

A bill to exclude locality adjustments from average pay for purposes of computing the amount of retirement annuities of new employees.

Introduced: January 7, 2025 Introduced by: Bill Cassidy Republican · Louisiana See on congress.gov

Government Operations and Politics Employee benefits and pensionsGovernment employee pay, benefits, personnel management

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Jan 7, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Jan 7, 2025

Introduced in Senate

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

This bill excludes locality-based comparability payments from the calculation of retirement and disability annuities for new employees in the Federal Employees’ Retirement System. (General schedule and certain other federal employees receive locality-based comparability payments when their official worksite is located in a geographic area with a pay disparity between federal and non-federal workers of more than 5%.)

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Committees of jurisdiction 1

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
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Lobbying activity 13

Registered lobbyists who named this bill in their disclosure filings. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION
for NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION · District of Columbia · 3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30)
NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION
for NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION · District of Columbia · 2nd Quarter 2026 (Apr 1 - June 30)
CAPITOL CITY GROUP, LTD.
for ASCENSUS, INC. · Pennsylvania · 1st Quarter 2026 (Jan 1 - Mar 31)
NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION
for NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION · District of Columbia · 1st Quarter 2026 (Jan 1 - Mar 31)
CAPITOL CITY GROUP, LTD.
for ASCENSUS, INC. · Pennsylvania · 4th Quarter 2025 (Oct 1 - Dec 31)
NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION
for NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION · District of Columbia · 4th Quarter 2025 (Oct 1 - Dec 31)

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13 filings
SENATE
13 filings
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
7 filings
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
7 filings
Energy, Dept of
7 filings
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
7 filings
Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
7 filings
Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
7 filings

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APA

U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 26: A bill to exclude locality adjustments from average pay for purposes of computing the amount of retirement annuities of new employees.. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-26/

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"S. 26: A bill to exclude locality adjustments from average pay for purposes of computing the amount of retirement annuities of new employees.." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-26/.

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S. 26, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-26/.

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