S.Amdt. 2883

SA 2883. Mr. CASEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 2282 proposed by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr. McCain)
to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019
for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle B of title XI, add the following:

SEC. 1126. LOCALITY PAY EQUITY.

(a) Limiting the Number of Local Wage Areas Defined Within
a General Schedule Pay Locality.--
(1) Local wage area limitation.--Section 5343(a) of title
5, United States Code, is amended--
(A) in paragraph (1)(B)(i), by striking ``(but such'' and
all that follows through ``are employed)'';
(B) in paragraph (4), by striking ``and'' after the
semicolon;
(C) in paragraph (5), by striking the period after
``Islands'' and inserting ``; and''; and
(D) by adding at the end the following:
``(6) the Office of Personnel Management shall define not
more than 1 local wage area within a pay locality, except
that this paragraph shall not apply to the pay locality
designated as `Rest of United States'.''.
(2) General schedule pay locality defined.--Section 5342(a)
of title 5, United States Code, is amended--
(A) in paragraph (2)(C), by striking ``and'' after the
semicolon;
(B) in paragraph (3), by striking the period after
``employee'' and inserting ``; and''; and
(C) by adding at the end the following:
``(4) `pay locality' has the meaning given that term under
section 5302.''.
(b) Regulations.--The Director of the Office of Personnel
Management shall prescribe any regulations necessary to carry
out the purpose of this section, including regulations to
ensure that the enactment of this section shall not have the
effect of reducing any rate of basic pay payable to any
individual who is serving as a prevailing rate employee (as
defined under section 5342(a)(2) of title 5, United States
Code).
(c) Applicability.--The amendments made by this section
shall apply on and after the first day of the first full pay
period beginning at least 180 days after the date of
enactment of this Act.
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