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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 Jul 10, 2025

Latest action (Jul 10, 2025) Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Referred to
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
Policy area
Government Operations and Politics
Issues
Immigration

Summary

The bill expands eligibility for special overtime pay to U.S. Border Patrol agents classified at grades GS-13, GS-14, and GS-15, in addition to the GS-12 agents who were previously eligible. Currently, higher-graded supervisory Border Patrol agents are not eligible for the same overtime pay rates available to grade GS-12 agents. The change amends federal law to extend the higher overtime pay rates to Border Patrol supervisors in grades GS-12 through GS-15, with the apparent intent of improving retention of supervisory personnel.

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)
1 cosponsor

Actions (2)
  1. Jul 10, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. · senate
  2. Jul 10, 2025 Introduced in Senate

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 89%
  • HR 6439 — Border Patrol Supervisors Retention Act · Introduced Dec 4, 2025 · Cong. 119 83%
  • HR 5260 — Pay Our Border Patrol and Customs Agents Act · Introduced Sep 10, 2025 · Cong. 119 62%
  • S 2163 — Border Patrol Recruitment Enhancement Act · Introduced Jun 25, 2025 · Cong. 119 62%
  • HR 8917 — No Tax on Border Patrol Agent Overtime Act · Introduced May 20, 2026 · Cong. 119 62%
  • S 4580 — No Tax on Border Patrol Agent Overtime Act · Introduced May 20, 2026 · Cong. 119 61%

Full text

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

July 10, 2025

Mr. Lankford (for himself and Mr. Kelly) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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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