True Shutdown Fairness Act
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- Senate
- Latest action
- Nov 7, 2025
What it does
The True Shutdown Fairness Act would appropriate funds to ensure federal employees, contract workers, and certain military personnel receive standard pay and benefits during a federal funding lapse that began on October 1, 2025, regardless of their furlough or excepted status. It also requires agencies to adjust contracts to compensate contractors for reasonable costs incurred due to worker furloughs, layoffs, or reduced hours during the lapse, and prohibits using appropriated funds to implement reductions in force or place employees on administrative leave for more than 10 work days per year during the lapse. The appropriations remain available until Congress enacts new funding for the…
AI summary · The lawmakers haven’t published an official summary of this bill yet, so 52 wrote this one from the bill’s text.
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