S.Amdt. 5734

SA 5734. Ms. ALSOBROOKS submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed by her to the bill S. 2, to provide for reconciliation
pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 33.; which was ordered to lie on
the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ___. APPROPRIATIONS FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES; PROHIBITION
ON CERTAIN REDUCTIONS IN FORCE.

(a) Definitions.--In this section--
(1) the term ``agency'' means each authority of the
executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government
of the United States;
(2) the term ``covered individual''--
(A) means each employee of an agency, without regard to
whether, during the period of any lapse in appropriations
with respect to that agency occurring before the date of
enactment of this Act--
(i) the head of that agency determined that the individual
was an excepted employee or an employee performing emergency
work, as those terms are defined by the Office of Personnel
Management; or
(ii) the individual was subject to furlough; and
(B) includes--
(i) a contractor who provides support to an employee
described in subparagraph (A);
(ii) a member of the Armed Forces on active duty; and
(iii) a member of a reserve component who, during a covered
lapse in appropriations with respect to the applicable
agency, performs active service or inactive-duty training;
(3) the term ``covered lapse in appropriations'' means,
with respect to an agency, a lapse in appropriations with
respect to that agency beginning on or after the date of
enactment of this Act, and ending on the termination date;
and
(4) the term ``termination date'' means the date on which,
after the start of a covered lapse in appropriations--
(A) there are enacted into law appropriations for the
agency (including a continuing appropriation) that provide
amounts for the purposes for which amounts are made available
under subsection (b); or
(B) there are enacted into law appropriations for the
agency (including a continuing appropriation) without any
appropriation for such purposes.
(b) Appropriations.--For fiscal year 2026, and each fiscal
year thereafter, there are appropriated to the head of each
agency with respect to which there is a covered lapse in
appropriations, out of any money in the Treasury not
otherwise appropriated, such sums as are necessary to
provide, with respect to the covered lapse in appropriations,
standard rates of pay, allowances, pay differentials,
benefits, and other payments otherwise payable on a regular
basis to covered individuals with respect to the agency.
(c) Prohibition.--During a covered lapse in appropriations,
none of the funds made available by this or any other Act may
be used to propose or implement a reduction in force, or any
similar effort, to permanently reduce the number of employees
employed by an agency.
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