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Shutdown Fairness Act This bill provides appropriations to pay federal employees who work during a government shutdown. Specifically, the bill provides appropriations for federal agencies to provide pay and allowances to excepted employees who are required to work during any period in which interim or full-year appropriations are not in effect for a fiscal year (i.e., a government shutdown). Under current law, excepted employees are required to work during a government shutdown and are not paid until the government shutdown is over. This bill provides appropriations to pay excepted employees during a government shutdown. The bill also specifies that the term excepted employee includes certain contractors who support federal employees during a government shutdown. A federal agency may not use the funds provided by this bill during any period in which continuing appropriations are in effect for the purpose of paying excepted employees of the agency.
Action Timeline
2025-10-09
Introduced in Senate
2025-10-09
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
Frequently Asked Questions
Did S.3001 pass?
S.3001 is still alive. Current stage: COMMITTEE. Pass likelihood: pending.
What does S.3001 do?
Shutdown Fairness Act This bill provides appropriations to pay federal employees who work during a government shutdown. Specifically, the bill provides appropriations for federal agencies to provide pay and allowances to excepted employees who are required to work during any period in which interim or full-year appropriations are not in effect for a fiscal year (i.e., a government shutdown). Under current law, excepted employees are required to work during a government shutdown and are not paid until the government shutdown is over. This bill provides appropriations to pay excepted employees d…
Who sponsored S.3001?
S.3001 was sponsored by Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin).
Full Bill Text
119 S3001 IS: Shutdown Fairness Act U.S. Senate 2025-10-09 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. II 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 3001 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES October 9, 2025 Mr. Johnson (for himself, Mr. Crapo , Mr. Cotton , Mr. Risch , and Mr. Young ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations A BILL To appropriate funds for pay and allowances of excepted Federal employees, and for other purposes. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Shutdown Fairness Act . 2. Appropriations (a) Definitions In this section— (1) the term agency means each authority of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States; and (2) the term excepted employee — (A) means an employee of an agency who the head of that agency determines is an excepted employee or an employee performing emergency work, as those terms are defined by the Office of Personnel Management; and (B) includes a contractor who— (i) provides support to an employee described in subparagraph (A); and (ii) is required to perform work during a lapse in appropriations, as determined by the head of the agency with respect to which the contractor provides support. (b) Appropriations For fiscal year 2026, or any fiscal year thereafter, for any period during which interim or full-year appropriations for that fiscal year are not in effect for an agency, there are appropriated to the head of the agency, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as are necessary to provide pay and allowances to excepted employees of the agency who are required to perform work during that period. (c) Termination Appropriations and funds made available and authority granted under subsection (b) shall be available to the head of an agency until whichever of the following first occurs: (1) The enactment into law of appropriations for the agency until the end of the applicable fiscal year (including a continuing appropriation) that provide amounts for the purposes for which amounts are made available under subsection (b). (2) The enactment into law of appropriations for the agency until the end of the applicable fiscal year (including a continuing appropriation) without any appropriation for such purposes. (d) Subsequent lapses Appropriations made available under subsection (b) may not be obligated by the head of an agency during any period during which continuing appropriations for the purposes for which amounts are made available under subsection (b) are in effect for the agency. (e) Charging to full-Year appropriations Expenditures made by the head of an agency pursuant to subsection (b) shall be charged to the applicable appropriation for the agency whenever a regular appropriation bill or a measure making continuing appropriations until the end of the applicable fiscal year for the agency becomes law.
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