United States · Bill · S
S. 3518 (117th)
FAIR Act
Introduced
19 January 2022
Last action
19 January 2022 · Introduced
Status
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Sponsors
Brian Schatz, Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH], Rep. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD-3], Chris Van Hollen, Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI], Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA], Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA], Bernie Sanders, Edward Markey, Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Baldwin, Richard Blumenthal, Martin Heinrich, Timothy Kaine, Ben Luján, Mark Warner, Sheldon Whitehouse
Subjects
Discovery layer
Source updated
5 December 2025
Summary
Federal Adjustment of Income Rates Act or the FAIR Act This bill modifies pay rates for federal employees in 2022. Specifically, the bill increases rates under the statutory pay systems and for prevailing rate employees by 4.1% and increases locality pay by 1%.
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Timeline
19 January 2022
Introduced
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Source: IntroReferral
19 January 2022
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
Source: IntroReferral
Votes
No vote records are attached yet.
Versions
- Introduced in Senate · 19 January 2022 · Official file
Documents
3 official files
Introduced in Senate (text)
Introduced in Senate (text)
Introduced in Senate · EN · 19 January 2022
Introduced in Senate (PDF)
Introduced in Senate · EN · 19 January 2022
Introduced in Senate
summary · EN · 19 January 2022
Sponsors
- Brian Schatz · D · Sponsor
- Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] · D · Cosponsor
- Rep. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD-3] · D · Cosponsor
- Chris Van Hollen · D · Cosponsor
- Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI] · D · Cosponsor
- Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA] · D · Cosponsor
- Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA] · D · Cosponsor
- Bernie Sanders · I · Cosponsor
- Edward Markey · D · Cosponsor
- Elizabeth Warren · D · Cosponsor
- Tammy Baldwin · D · Cosponsor
- Richard Blumenthal · D · Cosponsor
- Martin Heinrich · D · Cosponsor
- Timothy Kaine · D · Cosponsor
- Ben Luján · D · Cosponsor
- Mark Warner · D · Cosponsor
- Sheldon Whitehouse · D · Cosponsor
- · ssga00 · Standing
Related records
Sources
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- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3518
- Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/s/3518
- us · 117-s-3518 · source updated 5 December 2025