; or (B) a limited term appointee or limited emergency appointee in the Senior Executive Service serving under a political appointment and paid a rate of basic pay at or above the official rate for level IV of the Executive Schedule. (2) Notwithstanding sections 5382 and 5383 of title 5, United States Code, an employee described in paragraph (1) who is serving at the time official rates of the Executive Schedule are adjusted may receive a single increase in the employee’s pay rate of no more than 3.1 percent during calendar year 2020, subject to the normally applicable pay rules and pay limitations in effect on December 31, 2019, by operation of section 749 of division D of Public Law 116–6 after those pay limitations are increased by 3.1 percent (after applicable rounding). Such an employee may receive no other pay increase during calendar year 2020, except as provided in subsection (i). (e) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any employee paid a rate of basic pay (including any locality based payments under section 5304 of title 5, United States Code, or similar authority) at or above the official rate for level IV of the Executive Schedule who serves under a political appointment, and who is serving at the time official rates of the Executive Schedule are adjusted, may receive a single increase in the employee’s pay rate of no more than 3.1 percent during calendar year 2020, subject to the normally applicable pay rules and pay limitations in effect on December 31, 2019, by operation of section 749 of division D of Public Law 116–6 after those pay limitations are increased by 3.1 percent (after applicable rounding). Such an employee may receive no other pay increase during calendar year 2020, except as provided in subsection (i). This subsection does not apply to employees in the General Schedule pay system or the Foreign Service pay system, to employees appointed under section 3161 of title 5, United States Code, or to employees in another pay system whose position would be classified at GS–15 or below