A bill to provide a premium payment to employees who worked without receiving pay during the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security of 10 percent of the pay the employees should have received during the shutdown.

The bill would require a one-time premium payment of 10 percent of the wages owed to certain Department of Homeland Security employees who worked without pay during a specific government shutdown that began on February 14, 2026. It applies to employees who performed work during the shutdown but did not receive pay for that work, excluding those who were paid for any work during the period. The payment must be made by the head of each affected agency no later than one day after the shutdown ends, calculated based on the employee’s hours worked without pay and their hourly rate of basic pay.

No official summary is available here. This one was written by AI from the bill’s text.