[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 407 Introduced in House (IH)]

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103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 407

 To amend title 2, United States Code, to provide that an increase in 
    the rate of pay for Members of Congress may not go into effect 
        following a budget deficit in the preceding fiscal year.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 5, 1993

 Mr. Stearns introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                   Committee on House Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 2, United States Code, to provide that an increase in 
    the rate of pay for Members of Congress may not go into effect 
        following a budget deficit in the preceding fiscal year.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Deficit Accountability Act of 
1993.''

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION AGAINST INCREASES IN THE RATE OF PAY FOR MEMBERS OF 
              CONGRESS FOLLOWING A BUDGET DEFICIT.

    (a) Prohibition Against Increases in the Rate of Pay for Members of 
Congress Following a Budget Deficit.--Section 31 of title 2, United 
States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``and limited by 
        paragraph (3)'' after ``paragraph (2)''; and
            (2) by inserting at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(3) Except as provided in paragraph (2), an increase in 
        the rate of pay for Members of Congress pursuant to paragraph 
        (1) may not go into effect if the Director of the Office of 
        Management and Budget has determined that there was a deficit, 
        as that term is defined in section 3 of the Congressional 
        Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 601 et seq.), for the preceding 
        fiscal year.''.
    (b) Prohibition Against Increases in Rate of Pay Prior to the 
Initial Determination by the Office of Management and Budget.--Except 
as provided in paragraph (2) of section 31 of title 2, United States 
Code, an increase in the rate of pay for Members of Congress pursuant 
to paragraph (1) of section 31 of title 2, United States Code, may not 
go into effect during the period beginning on the date of enactment of 
this Act and ending on the date of the initial determination by the 
Director of the Office of Management and Budget after enactment of this 
Act as to whether a deficit, as that term is defined in section 3 of 
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 601 et seq.), existed 
for the prior fiscal year.

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