[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3802 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3802

   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 and distilled spirits.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 3, 1994

Mr. Smith of Michigan introduced the following bill; which was referred 
  jointly to the Committees on Ways and Means, Post Office and Civil 
            Service, Energy and Commerce, and Armed Services

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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 and distilled spirits.

    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 AND DISTILLED SPIRITS.

    (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 or distilled spirits or 
both.
    (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 and distilled 
        spirits.--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 and distilled 
        spirits 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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