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107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1077

To provide that pay for prevailing rate employees in Pasquotank County, 
 North Carolina, be determined by applying the same pay schedules and 
 rates as apply with respect to prevailing rate employees in the local 
        wage area that includes Carteret County, North Carolina.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 15, 2001

 Mr. Jones of North Carolina introduced the following bill; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide that pay for prevailing rate employees in Pasquotank County, 
 North Carolina, be determined by applying the same pay schedules and 
 rates as apply with respect to prevailing rate employees in the local 
        wage area that includes Carteret County, North Carolina.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. APPLICABILITY OF SAME PAY SCHEDULES AND RATES.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any provision of subchapter IV of 
chapter 53 of title 5, United States Code, pay for prevailing rate 
employees in Pasquotank County, North Carolina, shall be fixed and 
adjusted by applying the same pay schedules and rates as apply with 
respect to prevailing rate employees in the local wage area that 
includes Carteret County, North Carolina.
    (b) Definition.--For purposes of this Act, the term ``prevailing 
rate employee'' has the meaning given such term under section 5342 of 
title 5, United States Code.
    (c) Regulations.--The Office of Personnel Management may prescribe 
any regulations necessary to carry out this Act.
    (d) Effective Date.--This Act shall apply with respect to pay for 
service performed in any pay period beginning on or after the date of 
enactment of this Act.
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