Shutdown Fairness Act
Official title: A bill to appropriate funds for pay and allowances of excepted Federal employees, and for other purposes.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
Shutdown Fairness Act
This bill provides appropriations to pay federal employees who work during a government shutdown.
Specifically, the bill provides appropriations for federal agencies to provide pay and allowances to excepted employees who are required to work during any period in which interim or full-year appropriations are not in effect for a fiscal year (i.e., a government shutdown).
Under current law, excepted employees are required to work during a government shutdown and are not paid until the government shutdown is over. This bill provides appropriations to pay excepted employees during a government shutdown. The bill also specifies that the term excepted employee includes certain contractors who support federal employees during a government shutdown.
A federal agency may not use the funds provided by this bill during any period in which continuing appropriations are in effect for the purpose of paying excepted employees of the agency.
- Introduced in Senate Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
- NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION
- AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
- NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION
- AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
- NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION
- AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
- Office of Management & Budget (OMB)
- Treasury, Dept of
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
- Energy, Dept of
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3001: Shutdown Fairness Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-3001/
"S. 3001: Shutdown Fairness Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-3001/.
S. 3001, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-3001/.
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