[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 782 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 782

  To amend the National Labor Relations Act to provide for inflation 
 adjustments to the mandatory jurisdiction thresholds of the National 
                         Labor Relations Board.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 3, 2003

 Mr. Graham of South Carolina introduced the following bill; which was 
 read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, 
                              and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the National Labor Relations Act to provide for inflation 
 adjustments to the mandatory jurisdiction thresholds of the National 
                         Labor Relations Board.

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

SECTION 1. INFLATION ADJUSTMENTS TO MANDATORY JURISDICTION THRESHOLDS 
              OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD.

    Section 14(c)(1) of the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 
164(c)(1)) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(c)(1)(A) The Board shall assert jurisdiction over any labor 
dispute involving any class or category of employers over which it 
would assert jurisdiction under the standards prevailing on August 1, 
1959, with the financial threshold amounts adjusted for inflation under 
subparagraph (B).
    ``(B) The Board, beginning on October 1, 2003, and not less often 
than every 5 years thereafter, shall adjust each of the financial 
threshold amounts referred to in subparagraph (A) for inflation, using 
as the base period the later of (i) the most recent calendar quarter 
ending before the financial threshold amount was established, or (ii) 
the calendar quarter ending June 30, 1959. The inflation adjustments 
shall be determined using changes in the Consumer Price Index for all 
urban consumers published by the Department of Labor and shall be 
rounded to the nearest $10,000. The Board shall prescribe any 
regulations necessary for making the inflation adjustments.''.
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