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Pay Our Correctional Officers Fairly Act

To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide increased locality pay rates to certain Bureau of Prisons employees whose duty stations are located in the pay locality designated as ``Rest of U.S.'', and for other purposes.

Introduced Jun 12, 2025

Latest action (Jun 12, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Referred to
Oversight and Government Reform Committee
Policy area
Government Operations and Politics
Issues
Labor & Wages

Summary
  • Amends federal pay law to change how locality pay is calculated for Bureau of Prisons employees located in the "Rest of U.S." pay area.
  • Directs that Bureau of Prisons employees in the "Rest of U.S." pay locality shall receive the pay rate of the nearest other established pay locality if within 200 miles of such a locality.
  • If multiple pay localities are within 200 miles of an employee's worksite, applies the pay rate of the locality with the highest comparability payment.
  • Applies this change to both salaried and prevailing rate (hourly wage) Bureau of Prisons employees.
  • Does not apply the change to employees whose worksite is more than 200 miles from any pay locality other than "Rest of U.S.".
  • Takes effect 180 days after enactment.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
15 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Randy K. Sr. Weber’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • Employer not reported $36,400
  • TRANS-GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INC. $13,200
  • TRANS-GOLBAL SOLUTIONS GROUP INC $13,200
  • MCCORVEY INDUSTRIAL FABRICATION $13,200
  • BALD CYPRESS LTD $8,300

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Randy K. Sr. Weber → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Jun 12, 2025 Introduced in House
  2. Jun 12, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. · house

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • S 2083 — Pay Our Correctional Officers Fairly Act · Introduced Jun 12, 2025 · Cong. 119 96%
  • HR 4355 — Federal Prisons Accountability Act of 2025 · Introduced Jul 10, 2025 · Cong. 119 70%
  • HR 868 — Prison Staff Safety Enhancement Act · Introduced Jan 31, 2025 · Cong. 119 65%
  • S 3626 — Federal Correctional Officer Paycheck Protection Act of 2026 · Introduced Jan 13, 2026 · Cong. 119 65%
  • HR 3612 — End For-Profit Prisons Act of 2025 · Introduced May 23, 2025 · Cong. 119 65%
  • HR 8002 — Fair Wages for Incarcerated Workers Act of 2026 · Introduced Mar 19, 2026 · Cong. 119 64%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Jun 12, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

June 12, 2025

Mr. Weber of Texas (for himself, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. Langworthy, Mr. Lucas, and Ms. Stefanik) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

A BILL

To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide increased locality pay rates to certain Bureau of Prisons employees whose duty stations are located in the pay locality designated as “Rest of U.S.”, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Pay Our Correctional Officers Fairly Act”.

SEC. 2. PROVIDING NEAREST OTHER LOCALITY PAY RATE FOR CERTAIN BUREAU OF PRISONS EMPLOYEES RECEIVING REST OF U.S. LOCALITY RATE.

Section 5304 of title 5, United States Code, is amended—

(1) by redesignating subsection (i) as subsection (j); and

(2) by inserting after subsection (h) the following:

“(i)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, and consistent with paragraph (2), the official worksite of an employee of the Bureau of Prisons that is otherwise located in the pay locality designated as ‘Rest of U.S.’ shall be considered to be located in the nearest other pay locality established pursuant to this section.

“(2) For purposes of carrying out paragraph (1)—

“(A) if more than one pay locality is within 200 miles of the official worksite of such an employee, such worksite shall be considered to be located in the pay locality with the highest comparability payment;

“(B) an employee of the Bureau of Prisons shall not be subject to paragraph (1) if the official worksite of such employee is not within 200 miles of any pay locality other than ‘Rest of U.S.’; and

“(C) notwithstanding any other provision of law, the term ‘employee’ includes any prevailing rate employee (as that term is defined in section 5342).

“(3) This subsection shall begin to apply during any pay period beginning on or after the date that is 180 days after the date of enactment of this subsection.”. <all>

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