S.Amdt. 6217

1. Adds SEC. ___. GAO REPORT ON ALTERNATIVE MODELING FOR LOCALITY PAY FORMULATIONS wherever appropriate

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   Inserted: SEC. ___. GAO REPORT ON ALTERNATIVE MODELING FOR LOCALITY PAY FORMULATIONS.

   Inserted: (a) Definitions.--In this section:

   Inserted: (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term "appropriate congressional committees" means--

   Inserted: (A) the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate;

   Inserted: (B) the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate;

   Inserted: (C) the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate;

   Inserted: (D) the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives;

   Inserted: (E) the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives; and

   Inserted: (F) the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.

   Inserted: (2) Locality pay formula.--The term "locality pay formula" means the methodology used to determine the amount of locality-based comparability payments paid under section 5304 of title 5, United States Code.

   Inserted: (3) Pay locality.--The term "pay locality" has the meaning given the term in section 5302 of title 5, United States Code.

   Inserted: (b) Report.--

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   Inserted: (1) In general.--Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report that assesses potential alternative modeling for the locality pay formula.

   Inserted: (2) Contents.--The report required under paragraph (1) shall include an assessment of the following:

   Inserted: (A) The costs of changing the boundaries of pay localities to reflect recent (as of the date on which the report is submitted) updates to the delineations of metropolitan statistical areas and combined statistical areas by the Office of Management and Budget.

   Inserted: (B) The methodology used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in conducting the surveys described in section 5304(d)(1)(A) of title 5, United States Code, with the objective of improving the validity of those surveys to reflect market sensitivity.

   Inserted: (C) The impact of increasing the sample size in the locality pay formula to account for jobs by occupation.

   Inserted: (D) The consideration of human capital data, such as attrition data, in the locality pay formula to determine the effects of statistically-modeled salary estimates.

   Inserted: (E) Whether and how the locality pay formula should account for--

   Inserted: (i) the impact of quickly rising housing costs in establishing or modifying pay localities; and

   Inserted: (ii) the impact of the cost of major benefits, such as health insurance and pensions, and disparities in total Federal and non-Federal compensation, when establishing or modifying pay localities.

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