U.S. Park Police Modernization Act
Sponsored By: Representative Malliotakis
Introduced
Summary
This bill would create a fixed, step-based pay schedule for the U.S. Park Police and compress career pay progression. It reorganizes compensation into salary classes and a 13-step framework with set years of service and set time between steps.
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- Park Police officers and specialists would move onto the new 13-step schedule with step intervals of 52 or 104 weeks. For example, a Private is shown starting at $55,801 and rising toward $75,989 across steps.
- Senior ranks face explicit caps tied to the federal pay scale. Salary Classes 5, 7, 8, and 9 would be limited to 95% of Executive Schedule Level V, Salary Class 11 would equal Level V.
- The bill would amend the D.C. Police and Firemen’s Salary Act service-step rules, require that certain compensation adjustments on or before January 12, 2025 be disregarded, and take effect the first day of the first pay period after enactment.
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Analyzed Economic Effects
1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
New 13-step pay table for Park Police
If enacted, Park Police officers would move to a fixed 13-step annual pay table tied to years of service. Example rates: Private Step 1 = $55,801; Private Step 13 = $94,739; Chief Step 13 = $183,100. Time between steps would be 52 weeks early and 104 weeks at higher steps (about years 11–22). Senior classes would be capped at 95% of Executive Schedule level V (Classes 5, 7–9), with Class 10 set at 95% and Class 11 at level V; related DC step rules would be updated, and other payments under section 501(c)(3) would not be reduced. Any pay adjustments made on or before January 12, 2025 under the cited DC law would be disregarded, and the new table would start the first day of the first pay period on or after enactment.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Malliotakis
NY • R
Cosponsors
Garbarino
NY • R
Sponsored 3/31/2025
Amodei (NV)
NV • R
Sponsored 3/31/2025
Rep. Zinke, Ryan K. [R-MT-1]
MT • R
Sponsored 4/1/2025
Rep. Ezell, Mike [R-MS-4]
MS • R
Sponsored 4/7/2025
Rep. Bacon, Don [R-NE-2]
NE • R
Sponsored 4/29/2025
Rep. Gottheimer, Josh [D-NJ-5]
NJ • D
Sponsored 7/2/2025
LaLota
NY • R
Sponsored 8/15/2025
Rep. Hamadeh, Abraham J. [R-AZ-8]
AZ • R
Sponsored 9/3/2025
Stauber
MN • R
Sponsored 11/17/2025
Elfreth
MD • D
Sponsored 3/5/2026
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