[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3457 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3457

   To provide that cost-of-living adjustments to payments made under 
Federal law shall be determined using a new price index which does not 
                  take into account tobacco products.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 4, 1993

Mr. Smith of Michigan (for himself, Mr. Allard, Mr. Dreier, Mr. Herger, 
 Mr. Hoekstra, Mr. Jacobs, Mr. Klink, Mr. Traficant, Mr. Gingrich, Mr. 
 Coppersmith, and Mr. Torkildsen) introduced the following bill; which 
    was referred jointly to the Committees on Ways and Means, Armed 
   Services, Education and Labor, Post Office and Civil Service, and 
                          Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide that cost-of-living adjustments to payments made under 
Federal law shall be determined using a new price index which does not 
                  take into account tobacco products.

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

SECTION 1. COST-OF-LIVING ADJUSTMENTS TO PAYMENTS MADE UNDER FEDERAL 
              LAW DETERMINED USING PRICE INDEX WHICH DOES NOT TAKE INTO 
              ACCOUNT TOBACCO PRODUCTS.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Consumer Price Index for Government Use (CPI-G) established by 
subsection (c) shall be used to determine the amount of any cost-of-
living or similar adjustment to any payment (including payments 
referred to in subsection (b)) made under Federal law which is 
otherwise subject to such an adjustment using any price index which 
takes into account prices of tobacco products.
    (b) Payments Affected.--The payments referred to in this subsection 
are:
            (1) Benefits payable under the Social Security Act.
            (2) Retirement benefits payable to former employees of the 
        United States or to former members of the Armed Forces of the 
        United States.
            (3) Payments on account of the death or disability of any 
        employee or former employee of the United States.
            (4) Tier 1 railroad retirement benefits.
    (c) Publication of New Index.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than August 1, 1994, the Bureau 
        of Labor Statistics shall publish a Consumer Price Index for 
        Government Use (CPI-G).
            (2) Index not to include tobacco products.--The Consumer 
        Price Index for Government Use (CPI-G) shall be modeled after 
        the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, but shall not 
        include tobacco products in the items for which prices are 
        compared.
            (3) Past periods included.--Such Index shall be determined, 
        to the extent practicable, for the same periods before October 
        1, 1994, that the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers 
        was determined.
    (d) Transition to New Index.--If, in determining an amount for any 
period, an adjustment takes into account periods before October 1, 
1994, and periods after September 30, 1994--
            (1) the Consumer Price Index for Government Use shall be 
        treated as being used for all periods, and
            (2) the amount being adjusted shall be treated as being the 
        amount which, had such Index been used for all prior periods, 
        would result in the amount in effect for the immediately 
        preceding period.
    (e) Effective Date.--The section shall apply to adjustments after 
September 30, 1994.

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