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“FEDERAL MEAT AND POULTRY EMPLOYEES PAY ACT OF 1998” mentioning the U.S. Dept of Agriculture was published in the Senate section on pages S11002 on Sept. 25, 1998.
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FEDERAL MEAT AND POULTRY EMPLOYEES PAY ACT OF 1998
Mr. BENNETT. I ask unanimous consent the Agriculture Committee be discharged from further consideration of S. 2511 and the Senate then proceed to its immediate consideration.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report.
The bill clerk read as follows:
A bill (S. 2511) to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to pay employees of the Food Safety and Inspection Service working in establishments subject to the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act for overtime and holiday work performed by the employees.
The Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
Mr. BENNETT. I ask unanimous consent that the bill be read a third time and passed, the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table, and that any statements relating to the bill appear at this point in the Record.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
The bill was read the third time and passed, as follows:
S. 2511
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 ``Federal Meat and Poultry Employees Pay Act of 1998''.
SEC. 2. OVERTIME AND HOLIDAY PAY.
(a) In General.--The Secretary of Agriculture may--
(1) pay employees of the Department of Agriculture employed in an establishment subject to the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) or the Poultry Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 451 et seq.) for all overtime and holiday work performed at the establishment at rates determined by the Secretary, subject to applicable law relating to minimum wages and maximum hours; and
(2) accept from the establishment reimbursement for any sums paid by the Secretary for the overtime and holiday work, at rates determined under paragraph (1).
(b) Availability.--Sums received by the Secretary under this section shall remain available until expended without further appropriation and without fiscal year limitation, to carry out this section.
SEC. 3. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.
(a) Section 25 of the Poultry Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 468) is amended by striking ``except that the cost'' and all that follows and inserting ``except the cost of overtime and holiday pay paid pursuant to the Federal Meat and Poultry Employees Pay Act of 1998.''.
(b) The Act of June 5, 1948 (21 U.S.C. 695), is amended by striking ``overtime'' and all that follows and inserting
``overtime and holiday pay paid pursuant to the Federal Meat and Poultry Employees Pay Act of 1998.''.
(c) The matter under the heading ``bureau of animal industry'' of the Act of July 24, 1919, is amended by striking the next to the last paragraph (7 U.S.C. 394).
(d) Section 5549 of title 5, United States Code is amended by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following:
``(1) The Federal Meat and Poultry Employees Pay Act of 1998;''.
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