[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 698 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 698

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 10, 1999

  Mr. Wicker 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Stat. 1200; 28 U.S.C. 461 note) is repealed.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)(1) Subject to paragraph (2), 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 (relative to the date described in the next 
sentence), as determined under section 704(a)(1) of the Ethics Reform 
Act of 1989. The appropriate date under this sentence is the first day 
of the fiscal year that begins in the preceding calendar year.
    ``(2) In no event shall the percentage adjustment taking effect 
under paragraph (1) in any calendar year (before rounding), in any 
salary rate, exceed the percentage adjustment taking effect in such 
calendar year under section 5303 of title 5 in the rates of pay under 
the General Schedule.''.
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