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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.
Summary
This bill amends federal employee pay provisions to increase compensation for Bureau of Prisons employees whose duty stations are in the "Rest of U.S." pay locality, which is the default designation for areas without specific higher pay classifications. For salaried employees, their pay locality would be reclassified to the nearest other designated pay locality within 200 miles, which typically has higher pay rates. For hourly prevailing rate employees, they would receive pay based on the higher of their current wage area or the nearest other wage area's rates. The changes take effect 180 days after the bill is enacted.
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Sponsor (1)
- Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA] (R-LA)
2 cosponsors
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Bill Cassidy’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- ANDREESSEN HOROWITZ $59,100
- GENERAL ATLANTIC $37,700
- WELSH CARSON ANDERSON & STOWE $33,870
- OCHSNER HEALTH SYSTEM $33,250
- RA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT $30,200
Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Bill Cassidy → · Outside spending →
Actions (2)
- Jun 12, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. · senate
- Jun 12, 2025 Introduced in Senate
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Full text
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
June 12, 2025
Mr. Cassidy (for himself, Mr. Blumenthal, and Mrs. Shaheen) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
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 by redesignating subsection (i) as subsection (j) and 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; and
“(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 the nearest boundary of any pay locality other than ‘Rest of U.S.’.”.
SEC. 3. PROVIDING HIGHER WAGE AREA PAY FOR CERTAIN BUREAU OF PRISONS EMPLOYEES.
Section 5343 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(h)(1) In this subsection—
“(A) the term ‘covered pay locality’—
“(i) means a pay locality established under section 5304 that includes the boundaries of 2 or more wage areas established under this section; and
“(ii) does not include the pay locality designated as ‘Rest of the U.S.’;
“(B) the term ‘covered wage area’ means a wage area established under this section, the boundary of which is located within the boundaries of a covered pay locality;
“(C) the term ‘nearest other wage area’ means a wage area, a boundary of which is located within the boundaries of a nearest other pay locality established under section 5304(i); and
“(D) the term ‘Rest of U.S. wage area’ means a wage area located in the pay locality designated as ‘Rest of the U.S.’.
“(2)(A) A prevailing rate employee of the Bureau of Prisons employed in a Rest of U.S. wage area shall be paid at the higher wage schedule and rate of the nearest other wage area established under this paragraph and the wage area of the employee.
“(B) For purposes of carrying out subparagraph (A), if the nearest other pay locality established under section 5304(i) contains the boundaries of 2 or more wage areas established under this section—
“(i) the employee shall be paid at the wage schedule and rate for employees at the nearest other Bureau of Prisons facility within 200 miles of the nearest boundary of the nearest other pay locality established under section 5304(i); and
“(ii) if there is no Bureau of Prisons facility in the nearest other pay locality established under section 5304(i), the employee shall be paid at the wage schedule and rate for the nearest other wage area that the Bureau of Prisons determines is most similar in population, employment, manpower, and industry to the wage area of the employee, as in effect on the day before the date of enactment of this subsection.
“(3) A prevailing rate employee of the Bureau of Prisons employed in a covered wage area shall be paid at the highest applicable wage schedule and rate for any wage area located in the covered pay locality.”.
SEC. 4. APPLICABILITY.
The amendments made by this Act shall apply to any pay period beginning on or after the date that is 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act. <all>
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