[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3323 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3323

To provide that rates of pay for the President and Members of Congress 
shall be made equivalent to the rates of pay for their counterparts in 
    the United Mexican States if legislation implementing the North 
               American Free Trade Agreement is enacted.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 20, 1993

 Mr. Sanders introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly 
     to the Committees on Post Office and Civil Service and House 
                             Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide that rates of pay for the President and Members of Congress 
shall be made equivalent to the rates of pay for their counterparts in 
    the United Mexican States if legislation implementing the North 
               American Free Trade Agreement is enacted.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. METHOD FOR DETERMINING RATES OF PAY.

    (a) For the President.--Section 102 of title 3, United States Code, 
is amended by striking ``compensation in the aggregate amount of 
$200,000 a year,'' and inserting ``compensation equivalent to the 
annual rate of pay (as of the start of such term) for the President of 
the United Mexican States,''.
    (b) For Members of Congress.--Subsection (a) of section 601 of the 
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 31) is amended to read 
as follows:
    ``(a)(1) The annual rate of pay for service in any Congress as--
            ``(A) a Senator shall be equivalent to the annual rate of 
        pay in effect, as of the start of such Congress, for a Senator 
        in the Congress of the Union of the United Mexican States; or
            ``(B) a Member of the House of Representatives shall be 
        equivalent to the annual rate of pay in effect, as of the start 
        of such Congress, for a Deputy in the Congress of the Union of 
        the United Mexican States.
    ``(2) For the purpose of this subsection, the term `Member of the 
House of Representatives' includes a Delegate to the House of 
Representatives and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico.''.

SEC. 2. CONDITION PRECEDENT; EFFECTIVE DATE.

    (a) Condition Precedent.--The amendments made by section 1 shall 
not take effect unless the United States enacts legislation 
implementing the North American Free Trade Agreement.
    (b) Effective Date.--If the condition under subsection (a) is met--
            (1) the amendment made by section 1(a) shall take effect as 
        of the beginning of the first term beginning after the date of 
        the enactment of this Act; and
            (2) the amendment made by section 1(b) shall take effect as 
        of the beginning of the first Congress beginning after the 
        first election of Representatives which occurs after the date 
        of the enactment of this Act.

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