[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3753 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3753

     To increase the pay of Federal judges, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 4, 2007

  Mr. Conyers (for himself, Mr. Daniel E. Lungren of California, Mr. 
 Hoyer, Mr. Boehner, Mr. Berman, Mr. Pence, Mr. Watt, Mr. Bachus, Mr. 
     Schiff, Mrs. Biggert, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, and Mr. Gohmert) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
     To increase the pay of Federal judges, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Federal Judicial Salary Restoration 
Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. RESTORATION OF COMPENSATION.

    Effective the first applicable pay period beginning on or after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the salaries of the following categories 
of federal judicial officers shall be as follows:
            (1) The judges of the United States district courts 
        appointed under section 133(a) of title 28, United States Code, 
        shall be adjusted to $233,500.
            (2) The judges of the United States courts of appeals 
        appointed under section 44(a) of title 28, United States Code, 
        shall be adjusted to $247,500.
            (3) The associate justices of the United States Supreme 
        Court provided for in section 1 of title 28, United States 
        Code, shall be adjusted to $286,900.
            (4) The Chief Justice of the United States provided for in 
        section 1 of title 28, United States Code, shall be adjusted to 
        $299,800.

SEC. 3. COORDINATION RULE.

    If a pay adjustment under section 2 is to be made for an office as 
of the same date that any other pay adjustment would take effect for 
such office, the adjustment under section 2 shall be made first.

SEC. 4. REPEAL OF PROHIBITION ON SALARY INCREASES.

    Section 140 of Public Law 97-92, as amended by Public Law 107-77 
(28 U.S.C. 461 note), is repealed.

SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 
necessary to carry out this Act.

SEC. 6. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act and the repeal made by this Act take effect on the date of 
the enactment of this Act.
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