[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 807 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 807

To repeal the requirement relating to specific statutory authorization 
  for increases in judicial salaries, to provide for automatic annual 
        increases for judicial salaries, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 13, 1997

    Mr. Wicker (for himself, Mr. Shays, Mr. Davis of Virginia, Ms. 
    Molinari, Mr. Gejdenson, Mr. Borski, Mr. LaHood, Mr. King, Mrs. 
 Clayton, Mr. Schiff, Mrs. Meek of Florida, Ms. Lofgren, Mr. Hyde, Mr. 
  English of Pennsylvania, Mr. Gekas, Mr. Frank of Massachusetts, Mr. 
Skeen, Mr. Ackerman, Mr. Minge, Mr. Bryant, and Mr. Graham) introduced 
    the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the 
                               Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To repeal the requirement relating to specific statutory authorization 
  for increases in judicial salaries, to provide for automatic annual 
        increases for judicial salaries, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. JUDICIAL COST-OF-LIVING INCREASES.

    (a) Repeal of Statutory Requirement Relating to Judicial 
Salaries.--Section 140 of the resolution entitled ``A Joint Resolution 
making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1982, and 
for other purposes.'', approved December 15, 1981 (Public Law 97-92; 95 
Stat. 1200; 28 U.S.C. 461 note) is repealed.
    (b) Automatic Annual Increases.--Section 461(a) of title 28, United 
States Code, is amended to read as follows:
    ``(a) Effective on the first day of the first applicable pay period 
beginning on or after January 1 of each calendar year, each salary rate 
which is subject to adjustment under this section shall be adjusted by 
an amount, rounded to the nearest multiple of $100 (or if midway 
between multiples of $100, to the next higher multiple of $100) equal 
to the percentage of such salary rate which corresponds to the most 
recent percentage change in the Employment Cost Index, as determined 
under section 704(a)(1) of the Ethics Reform Act of 1989.''.
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