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Border Patrol Supervisors Retention Act

To expand eligibility for special overtime pay to U.S. Border Patrol agents classified above grade GS-12.

Introduced Dec 4, 2025

Latest action (Dec 4, 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
Immigration

Summary

This bill expands eligibility for special overtime pay to U.S. Border Patrol agents in higher supervisory grades. Currently, special overtime pay is available only to Border Patrol agents at grade GS-12. The bill extends this benefit to agents classified from grade GS-12 through GS-15, allowing supervisory-level Border Patrol personnel to receive the same overtime pay rates.

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)
7 cosponsors

Actions (2)
  1. Dec 4, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. · house
  2. Dec 4, 2025 Introduced in 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.

  • HR 8956 — Border Patrol Supervisors Retention Act · Introduced May 21, 2026 · Cong. 119 95%
  • S 2249 — Border Patrol Supervisors Retention Act · Introduced Jul 10, 2025 · Cong. 119 83%
  • HR 8917 — No Tax on Border Patrol Agent Overtime Act · Introduced May 20, 2026 · Cong. 119 76%
  • S 4580 — No Tax on Border Patrol Agent Overtime Act · Introduced May 20, 2026 · Cong. 119 74%
  • HR 8949 — Capitol Police Retirement Reform Act of 2026 · Introduced May 20, 2026 · Cong. 119 56%
  • S 4551 — Restoring Overtime Pay Act of 2026 · Introduced May 18, 2026 · Cong. 119 55%

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

December 4, 2025

Mr. Tony Gonzales of Texas (for himself, Mr. Guest, Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania, Mr. Alford, Mr. Stauber, and Mr. McGuire) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

A BILL

To expand eligibility for special overtime pay to U.S. Border Patrol agents classified above grade GS-12.

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 “Border Patrol Supervisors Retention Act”.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF HIGHER RATES OF REGULARLY SCHEDULED OVERTIME PAY FOR CERTAIN U.S. BORDER PATROL AGENTS.

Section 5550(h) of title 5, United States Code, is amended—

(1) in the subsection heading, by striking “GS-12 Border Patrol Agents” and inserting “Border Patrol Agents Classified From Grade GS-12 Through GS-15”; and

(2) in paragraph (1), by striking “a position at grade GS- 12” and inserting “a position from grade GS-12 through GS- 15”. <all>

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