To amend title 5 of the United States Code to provide special overtime pay for certain border patrol agents, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5538.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. TONY GONZALES of Texas, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 150, September 18, 2023, Page H4382):
  Article 1, Section 8: To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof. The single subject of this legislatidn is: To provide special overtime pay for certain U.S. Border Patrol agents.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 18, 2023 ↗

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  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5538, 118th Congress

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  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5538

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  February 4, 2025

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  September 14, 2026

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  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

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