EXTENSION OF LOCALITY PAY.

SEC. 1912. EXTENSION OF LOCALITY PAY.(a) Locality-based Comparability Payments.—Section 5304 of title 5, United States Code, is amended—(1) in subsection (f)(1), by striking subparagraph (A) and inserting the following:“(A) each General Schedule position in the United States, as defined under section 5921(4), and its territories and possessions, including the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, shall be included within a pay locality; and”;(2) in subsection (g)—(A) in paragraph (2)—(i) by striking “and” at the end of subparagraph (A); and(ii) by striking subparagraph (B) and inserting the following:“(B) positions under subsection (h)(1)(C) not covered by appraisal systems certified under subsection 5307(d); and“(C) any positions under subsection (h)(1)(D) as the President may determine.”; and(B) by adding at the end the following:“(3) The applicable maximum under this subsection shall be level II of the Executive Schedule for positions under subsection (h)(1)(C) covered by appraisal systems certified under section 5307(d).”;(3) in subsection (h)(1)—(A) in subparagraph (B), by striking “and” after the semicolon;(B) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as subparagraph (D);(C) by inserting after subparagraph (B) the following:“(C) a Senior Executive Service position under section 3132 or 3151 or a senior level position under section 5376 stationed within the United States, but outside the 48 contiguous States and the District of Columbia in which the incumbent was an individual who on the day before the effective date of section 1912 of the Non-Foreign Area Retirement Equity Assurance Act of 2009 was eligible to receive a cost-of-living allowance under section 5941 and who thereafter has served continuously in an area in which such an allowance was payable; and”;(D) in clause (iv) (in the matter following subparagraph (D)), by inserting “, except for a position covered by subparagraph (C)” before the semicolon;(E) in clause (v) (in the matter following subparagraph (D)), by inserting “, except for a position covered by subparagraph (C)” before the semicolon; and123 STAT. 2620(F) in clause (vii) (in the matter following subparagraph (D)), by inserting “, except for a position covered by subparagraph (C)” before the period; and(4) in subsection (h)(2)—(A) in subparagraph (B)(i), by striking “and (B)” and inserting “through (C)”; and(B) in subparagraph (B)(ii), by striking “(1)(C)” and inserting “(1)(D)”.(b) Allowances Based on Living Costs and Conditions of Environment.—Section 5941 of title 5, United States Code, is amended—(1) in subsection (a), by adding at the end the following: “Notwithstanding any preceding provision of this subsection, the cost-of-living allowance rate based on paragraph (1) shall be the cost-of-living allowance rate in effect on the date of enactment of the Non-Foreign Area Retirement Equity Assurance Act of 2009, except as adjusted under subsection (c).”;(2) by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (d); and(3) by inserting after subsection (a) the following:“(b) This section shall apply only to areas that are designated as cost-of-living allowance areas as in effect on December 31, 2009.“(c)(1) The cost-of-living allowance rate payable under this section shall be adjusted on the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after—“(A) January 1, 2010; and“(B) January 1 of each calendar year in which a locality-based comparability adjustment takes effect under paragraphs (2) and (3), respectively, of section 1914 of the Non-Foreign Area Retirement Equity Assurance Act of 2009.“(2)(A) In this paragraph, the term ‘applicable locality-based comparability pay percentage’ means, with respect to calendar year 2010 and each calendar year thereafter, the applicable percentage under paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of section 1914 of Non-Foreign Area Retirement Equity Assurance Act of 2009.“(B) Each adjusted cost-of-living allowance rate under paragraph (1) shall be computed by—“(i) subtracting 65 percent of the applicable locality-based comparability pay percentage from the cost-of-living allowance percentage rate in effect on December 31, 2009; and“(ii) dividing the resulting percentage determined under clause (i) by the sum of—“(I) one; and“(II) the applicable locality-based comparability payment percentage expressed as a numeral.“(3) No allowance rate computed under paragraph (2) may be less than zero.“(4) Each allowance rate computed under paragraph (2) shall be paid as a percentage of basic pay (including any applicable locality-based comparability payment under section 5304 or similar provision of law and any applicable special rate of pay under section 5305 or similar provision of law).”.