Federal Correctional Officer Paycheck Protection Act of 2026
Sponsored By: Representative Goldman (NY)
Introduced
Summary
Creates a new 35% pay boost for Federal correctional officers and certain prevailing wage prison workers. The bill would replace the General Schedule or Law Enforcement Officer (LEO) base rate with a special base rate for qualifying Bureau of Prisons custody staff and increase certain Federal Wage System rates by 35 percent.
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Higher pay for federal prison staff
If enacted, Bureau of Prisons employees whose work mainly involves custody, control, supervision, or routine direct inmate contact would get higher base pay. For employees paid under the General Schedule or Law Enforcement Officer rates, the bill would raise the applicable base by 35%, round to the nearest dollar, and replace the GS/LEO base with that special base pay (capped at Executive Schedule level V). For covered Federal Wage System employees at grade 9 or below, the Attorney General would increase wage rates by 35%, treated as basic pay and capped at Executive Schedule level IV. The bill would count some supervisors and administrative staff as eligible if OPM finds their positions meet the custody/contact test. The special pay rules would start on enactment and would end five years later unless the DOJ Inspector General reports measurable progress reducing augmentation and excessive mandatory overtime; the IG must report to Congress at least 180 days before the expiration and can allow the authority to continue.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Goldman (NY)
NY • D
Cosponsors
Goodlander
NH • D
Sponsored 1/13/2026
Bresnahan
PA • R
Sponsored 1/13/2026
Trahan
MA • D
Sponsored 1/13/2026
Bacon
NE • R
Sponsored 1/13/2026
Fitzpatrick
PA • R
Sponsored 1/13/2026
Boyle (PA)
PA • D
Sponsored 1/13/2026
LaLota
NY • R
Sponsored 1/13/2026
McGovern
MA • D
Sponsored 1/13/2026
Ciscomani
AZ • R
Sponsored 1/13/2026
Deluzio
PA • D
Sponsored 1/13/2026
Lawler
NY • R
Sponsored 1/13/2026
Riley (NY)
NY • D
Sponsored 1/13/2026
Mackenzie
PA • R
Sponsored 1/13/2026
Neguse
CO • D
Sponsored 1/13/2026
Meuser
PA • R
Sponsored 1/13/2026
Pappas
NH • D
Sponsored 1/13/2026
Moulton
MA • D
Sponsored 1/13/2026
Stanton
AZ • D
Sponsored 1/13/2026
Gillen
NY • D
Sponsored 1/13/2026
Meng
NY • D
Sponsored 1/20/2026
Stauber
MN • R
Sponsored 1/20/2026
Lynch
MA • D
Sponsored 1/20/2026
Dean (PA)
PA • D
Sponsored 1/22/2026
Van Drew
NJ • R
Sponsored 1/30/2026
Veasey
TX • D
Sponsored 2/2/2026
Conaway
NJ • D
Sponsored 2/3/2026
Kean
NJ • R
Sponsored 2/4/2026
Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
DC • D
Sponsored 2/4/2026
Hayes
CT • D
Sponsored 2/4/2026
Bishop
GA • D
Sponsored 2/4/2026
Soto
FL • D
Sponsored 2/5/2026
Malliotakis
NY • R
Sponsored 2/9/2026
Thompson (PA)
PA • R
Sponsored 2/9/2026
Sorensen
IL • D
Sponsored 2/9/2026
Rutherford
FL • R
Sponsored 2/10/2026
Vindman
VA • D
Sponsored 2/20/2026
Williams (GA)
GA • D
Sponsored 2/23/2026
Messmer
IN • R
Sponsored 2/24/2026
Golden (ME)
ME • D
Sponsored 2/25/2026
Scott, David
GA • D
Sponsored 2/25/2026
Miller (OH)
OH • R
Sponsored 3/4/2026
Miller (WV)
WV • R
Sponsored 3/5/2026
Norcross
NJ • D
Sponsored 3/5/2026
Langworthy
NY • R
Sponsored 3/19/2026
McClain Delaney
MD • D
Sponsored 3/19/2026
Johnson (GA)
GA • D
Sponsored 4/6/2026
Stefanik
NY • R
Sponsored 4/9/2026
Cuellar
TX • D
Sponsored 4/13/2026
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