[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 392 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 392

 To provide that increases in the rate of compensation for Members of 
the House of Representatives and the Senate shall not take effect until 
    the start of the Congress following the Congress in which such 
                        increases are approved.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 5, 1993

 Mr. Solomon 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 increases in the rate of compensation for Members of 
the House of Representatives and the Senate shall not take effect until 
    the start of the Congress following the Congress in which such 
                        increases are approved.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) paragraph (2) 
of section 601(a) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 
U.S.C. 31), relating to congressional salary adjustment, is amended by 
striking out ``Effective at the beginning of the first applicable pay 
period commencing on or after the first day of the month in which'' and 
inserting in lieu thereof ``Effective at the beginning of the Congress 
following any Congress during which''.
    (b) Section 601(a) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 
U.S.C. 31), relating to congressional salaries, is amended by adding at 
the end thereof the following new paragraphs:
    ``(3) Any increase in the rate of pay payable for positions 
referred to in paragraph (1) occurring because of--
            ``(A) the lapse or adjustment of any limitation on the 
        availability of appropriated funds, or
            ``(B) an adjustment to such rates by or under any law 
        enacted after the date of the enactment of this paragraph,
shall take effect at the beginning of the Congress following the 
Congress during which the lapse or adjustment of such appropriation 
limitation occurred or such law was enacted, as the case may be. Such 
an appropriation limitation or law shall not be considered to supersede 
this paragraph unless it specifically refers to this paragraph and 
expressly states that it supersedes this paragraph.
    ``(4) Adjustments in the rates of pay for positions referred to in 
paragraph (1) occurring under section 225 of the Federal Salary Act of 
1967 (2 U.S.C. 351-361) shall take effect (notwithstanding subsection 
(i) of such section) at the beginning of the Congress following the 
Congress during which such rates of pay were approved by the Congress 
under subsection (i) of such section (or, if later, the date prescribed 
by the President under subsection (i)(2)(A) of such section).
    ``(5) For purposes of this section, the period, during any even-
numbered year of any Congress, which begins on the Tuesday following 
the first Monday of November of such year and which ends at noon on the 
following January 3 shall be considered as occurring during the first 
session of the following Congress.''.
    Sec. 2. The provisions of this Act shall take effect on the date of 
the enactment of this Act.

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