[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 915 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

  1st Session
                                H. R. 915


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 26, 1999

  Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental 
                                Affairs

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                                 AN ACT


 
 To authorize a cost of living adjustment in the pay of administrative 
                              law judges.

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

SECTION 1. PAY OF ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGES.

    Section 5372(b) of title 5, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``(A)'' after ``(1)'' 
        and by striking all after the first sentence and inserting the 
        following:
    ``(B) Within level AL-3, there shall be 6 rates of basic pay, 
designated as AL-3, rates A through F, respectively. Level AL-2 and 
level AL-1 shall each have 1 rate of basic pay.
    ``(C) The rate of basic pay for AL-3, rate A, may not be less than 
65 percent of the rate of basic pay for level IV of the Executive 
Schedule, and the rate of basic pay for AL-1 may not exceed the rate 
for level IV of the Executive Schedule.'';
            (2) in paragraph (3)(A), by striking ``upon'' each time it 
        appears and inserting ``at the beginning of the next pay period 
        following''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(4) Subject to paragraph (1), effective at the beginning of the 
first applicable pay period commencing on or after the first day of the 
month in which an adjustment takes effect under section 5303 in the 
rates of basic pay under the General Schedule, each rate of basic pay 
for administrative law judges shall be adjusted by an amount determined 
by the President to be appropriate.''.

            Passed the House of Representatives October 25, 1999.

            Attest:

                                                 JEFF TRANDAHL,

                                                                 Clerk.