S3066Referred to Committee
Pay the People Act
Introduced
In Committee
3
Passed One Chamber4
Passed Both5
Signed into Law119th
Congress
2025-10-28
Introduced
0
Cosponsors
S
ⓘType
Sponsor
John Kennedy
Republican · LA · Senator
Votes with party: 75.1% (843 recorded votes)
Full profile: /officials/K000393
Source: Congress.gov · FEC
Cosponsors (0)
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No cosponsors on record. Bills can pass without cosponsors — this often means the sponsor introduced the bill alone, either because it's a messaging bill, a chairman's mark, or simply early in the legislative cycle.
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Committee Activity
Currently in
- Senate Committee on AppropriationsReferred To · 2025-10-28
Previously
- Appropriations CommitteeReferred To · 2025-10-28
Plain-English Summary
Pay the People Act This bill provides appropriations to pay federal employees during a government shutdown due to a lapse in appropriations. Specifically, the bill provides appropriations for federal agencies to provide standard rates of pay, allowances, pay differentials, benefits, and other payments to agency employees (including contractors and members of the Armed Forces on active duty) during any period in which interim continuing appropriations or full-year appropriations are not in effect for a fiscal year (i.e., 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 employees of the agency. The bill must take effect as if it had been enacted on September 30, 2025.
Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.
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