[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1746 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1746

  To provide that, in any year in which the Congress does not timely 
adopt a concurrent resolution on the budget that eliminates the deficit 
 by fiscal year 2002, Members of Congress shall forfeit their right to 
                be paid for the remainder of that year.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 22, 1997

 Mr. Sessions introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on House Oversight

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide that, in any year in which the Congress does not timely 
adopt a concurrent resolution on the budget that eliminates the deficit 
 by fiscal year 2002, Members of Congress shall forfeit their right to 
                be paid for the remainder of that year.

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

SECTION 1. FORFEITURE OF PAY FOR FAILURE TO ADOPT A TIMELY CONCURRENT 
              RESOLUTION THAT ACHIEVES A BALANCED BUDGET BY FISCAL YEAR 
              2002.

    Subsection (a) of section 601 of the Legislative Reorganization Act 
of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 31) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(3)(A) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subsection, 
if, in any calendar year beginning after the date of the enactment of 
this paragraph and before the start of fiscal year 2002, Congress does 
not complete action on a balanced budget resolution before June 16th of 
such calendar year, no Member of Congress shall be entitled to pay for 
service performed during any month in such year that begins after that 
date.
    ``(B) For purposes of this paragraph, the term `balanced budget 
resolution' means a concurrent resolution on the budget (within the 
meaning of section 3 of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment 
Control Act of 1974) which eliminates the budget deficit by September 
30, 2002.
    ``(C) The amount of any pay forfeited under this paragraph shall be 
returned to the Treasury, to be used for deficit reduction.''.
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