S. 5036Senate116th Congress (2019-2021)Enacted

Secret Service Overtime Pay Extension Act

Introduced December 16, 2020

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The Secret Service Overtime Pay Extension Act lengthens the special overtime‑pay rule for Secret Service agents who protect officials, keeping the exception in place through 2023 instead of ending in 2020. It also adds new reporting duties so Congress can track how the overtime rule and other agency recommendations are working.

Key Provisions

  • Changes the overtime‑pay exception period to cover calendar years 2016‑2023.
  • Specifies that the “appropriate committees” for reports are the Senate Appropriations, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and Judiciary committees, and the House Appropriations, Oversight and Reform, and Judiciary committees.
  • Requires the Secret Service director to submit an annual report by Jan. 30 for 2021‑2023 on the impact of the overtime rule and related recruitment/retention data.
  • Mandates a report within 60 days of the law’s enactment on the status of GAO recommendations that remain open.
  • Orders the Comptroller General to report within one year on the agency’s progress in implementing the Protective Mission Panel’s recommendations, especially training and staffing.
  • Repeals an earlier reporting requirement that is now superseded.

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Became Public Law No: 116-269.

December 30, 2020

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Introduced in Senate

December 16, 2020

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Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7556-7557; text: CR S7556-7557)

December 16, 2020

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Message on Senate action sent to the House.

December 17, 2020

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Received in the House.

December 17, 2020 • 2:19 PM

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Held at the desk.

December 17, 2020 • 2:40 PM

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Mr. Raskin asked unanimous consent to take from the Speaker's table and consider.

December 18, 2020 • 2:09 PM

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Considered by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR H7272)

December 18, 2020 • 2:10 PM

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Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed without objection.

December 18, 2020 • 2:10 PM

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On passage Passed without objection. (text: CR H7272)

December 18, 2020 • 2:10 PM

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Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

December 18, 2020 • 2:10 PM

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Presented to President.

December 21, 2020

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Signed by President.

December 30, 2020

Became Law

Became Public Law No: 116-269.

December 30, 2020

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One Hundred Sixteenth Congress of the United States of America

2d Session

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday, the third day of January, two thousand and twenty

S. 5036

AN ACT

To amend the Overtime Pay for Protective Services Act of 2016 to extend the Secret Service overtime pay exception through 2023, and for other purposes.

1.

Short title

This Act may be cited as the Secret Service Overtime Pay Extension Act.

2.

Extension of overtime pay exception through 2023 for protective services

(a)

In general

Section 2 of the Overtime Pay for Protective Services Act of 2016 (5 U.S.C. 5547 note) is amended—

(1)

in the section heading, by striking 2020 and inserting 2023;

(2)

in subsection (a), by striking during 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, or 2020 and inserting during any of calendar years 2016 through 2023; and

(3)

in subsection (b)(1)—

(A)

by inserting for a given calendar year after for premium pay; and

(B)

by striking during 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 and inserting during each of calendar years 2016 through 2023.

(b)

Reports

(1)

Definition

In this subsection, the term appropriate committees of Congress means the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives.

(2)

Report on extensions

Not later than January 30 of each of calendar years 2021, 2022, and 2023, the Director of the United States Secret Service shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on the effects of the amendments made by subsection (a) and the amendments made by section 2(a) of the Secret Service Overtime Pay Extension Act (Public Law 115–383; 132 Stat. 5121), which shall include, with respect to the previous calendar year, the information described under paragraphs (1) through (7) of section 2(c) of the Secret Service Recruitment and Retention Act of 2018 (Public Law 115–160; 132 Stat. 1246).

(3)

Open recommendations

Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Director of the United States Secret Service shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report discussing the progress of the United States Secret Service in implementing each recommendation of the Government Accountability Office to the United States Secret Service that has not been designated as closed by the Comptroller General of the United States.

(4)

Protective Mission Panel

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 committees of Congress 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.

(c)

Repeal of superseded reporting requirement

Section 2(b) of the Secret Service Overtime Pay Extension Act (Public Law 115–383; 132 Stat. 5121) is repealed.

Speaker of the House of Representatives

Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate