A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for the payment of overtime to certain personnel employed in the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of the Department of Agriculture.

Establishes the overtime hourly rate of pay for an employee of the Animal and Plant Health Service, Department of Agriculture at an amount equal to one and one-half times the hourly rate of basic pay of such employee if the Secretary of Agriculture determines that: (1) the duties of such employee are critical to certain inspection and disease-control services; (2) the operating requirements cannot be met without overtime; and (3) the overtime work is performed at a time not subject to control of the Department or employee, or is required by an emergency disease outbreak.