In the nature of a substitute.

SA 2214. Mr. McCONNELL (for Mr. Grassley) proposed an amendment to
the bill H.R. 3731, to provide overtime pay for employees of the United
States Secret Service, and for other purposes; as follows:

Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the
following:

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ``Secret Service Recruitment
and Retention Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF OVERTIME PAY EXCEPTION THROUGH 2018 FOR
PROTECTIVE SERVICES.

(a) Amendments.--
(1) In general.--Section 2 of the Overtime Pay for
Protective Services Act of 2016 (5 U.S.C. 5547 note) is
amended--
(A) in the section heading, by striking ``in 2016'' and
inserting ``during 2016 through 2018'';
(B) in subsection (a), by striking ``2016'' and inserting
``2016, 2017, or 2018''; and
(C) in subsection (b), by striking paragraph (1) and
inserting the following:
``(1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, including section 5547(a) of title 5, United States
Code, and only to the extent that an appropriation is
provided specifically in an appropriations Act for premium
pay in excess of the annual equivalent of the limitation on
the rate of pay contained in section 5547(a), any covered
employee may receive premium pay during 2016, 2017, and 2018,
to the extent provided under section 118 of the Treasury and
General Government Appropriations Act, 2001 (5 U.S.C. 5547
note).''.
(2) Clarifying provision.--Section 118 of the Treasury and
General Government Appropriations Act, 2001 (5 U.S.C. 5547
note) is amended, in the first sentence, by inserting ``or
3056A'' after ``section 3056(a)''.
(b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a)
shall take effect as if enacted on December 31, 2016.
(c) Report on Extensions.--Not later than January 30, 2018,
and January 30, 2019, the Director of the Secret Service
shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security and the
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of
Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs of the Senate a report on the effects of
the amendment made by subsection (a)(2). The report shall
include, with respect to the previous calendar year--
(1) the total number of United States Secret Service
personnel receiving premium pay above the premium pay
limitation in subsection (a) of section 5547 of title 5,
United States Code;
(2) the total amount of premium pay for that calendar year
paid to United States Secret Service personnel above the
premium pay limitation in such subsection;
(3) the mean and median amount of premium pay paid to
United States Secret Service personnel above the premium pay
limitation in such subsection;
(4) the greatest amount paid to United States Secret
Service personnel above the premium pay limitation in such
subsection and the number of employees who received that
amount;
(5) notwithstanding the amendments made by subsection (a),
the total number of United States Secret Service personnel
who were not fully compensated for service because of the
premium pay earnings limitation in section 118 of the
Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 2001 (5
U.S.C. 5547 note);
(6) the total amount of premium pay United States Secret
Service personnel would have been paid but for the premium
pay earnings limitation in such section; and
(7) a list of United States Secret Service personnel who,
within the calendar year, received premium pay above the
premium pay limitation in subsection (a) of section 5547 of
title 5, United States Code, and separated from the agency,
including the type of separation in each case.

SEC. 3. REPORT OF THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED
STATES.

Not later than 1 year after the effective date of this
section, the Comptroller General of the United States shall
complete a study and submit to the Committee on the Judiciary
of the House of Representatives, the Committee on the
Judiciary of the Senate,

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the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House
of Representatives, and the Committee on Homeland Security
and Governmental Affairs of the Senate a report on the extent
of the progress made by the United States Secret Service in
implementing the recommendations of the United States Secret
Service Protective Mission Panel, including in particular
those items pertaining to training and personnel enumerated
in the Executive Summary to Report from the United States
Secret Service Protective Mission Panel to the Secretary of
Homeland Security dated December 15, 2014.

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