[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2764 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2764

                 For the relief of Lilly M. Ledbetter.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 8, 2009

 Ms. Woolsey introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Ways 
 and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
 in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
                 For the relief of Lilly M. Ledbetter.

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

SECTION 1. PAYMENT OF BACK PAY.

    The Secretary of the Treasury shall pay, out of any money in the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $60,000.00 to Lilly M. 
Ledbetter of Jacksonville, Alabama, for compensation for back pay not 
received as an employee of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Inc. The 
sum represents the amount she was awarded by the United States district 
court in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Civil Action No. 99-
C-3137-E (N.D. Ala. Sept. 24, 2003) for back pay, but denied by the 
Supreme Court, in accordance with title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 
1964.

SEC. 2. SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS.

    (a) Entitlement to Benefits.--For purposes of determining the 
entitlement to, and the amount of, old-age insurance benefits under 
title II of the Social Security Act based on the wages and self-
employment income of Lilly M. Ledbetter of Jacksonville, Alabama, the 
Commissioner of Social Security shall increase the amount credited to 
her as remuneration paid to her in connection with service performed 
for Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company for each pay period beginning on 
or after November 1, 1985, and ending on or before October 31, 1998, by 
the amount of pay which was alleged in her complaint in the case cited 
in section 1 to be paid which was illegally denied her in connection 
with such service for such pay period (totaling $223,776 as the amount 
for all such pay periods).
    (b) Primary Insurance Amount.--Notwithstanding section 215(f)(1) of 
the Social Security Act, the Commissioner of Social Security shall 
recompute the primary insurance amount of Lilly M. Ledbetter so as to 
take into account the provisions of this section solely for purposes of 
determining her old-age insurance benefits pursuant to subsection (a).
    (c) Effective Date and Payment for Prior Months.--The provisions of 
this section shall apply with respect to benefits for months beginning 
before, on, or after the date of the enactment of this Act. Benefit 
amounts payable solely by reason of the provisions of this Act for 
months preceding the date of the enactment of this Act shall be paid in 
a lump sum.
    (d) Restoration of Trust Fund Balance.--There are appropriated for 
fiscal years ending after the date of the enactment of this Act, from 
amounts otherwise available in the general fund of the Treasury, to the 
Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund such sums as the 
Commissioner of Social Security deems necessary from time to time for 
each fiscal year, on account of--
            (1) amounts payable under title II of the Social Security 
        Act solely by reason of the preceding provisions of this 
        section,
            (2) the additional administrative expenses resulting 
        therefrom, and
            (3) any loss in interest to such Trust Fund resulting from 
        the payment of such amounts,
in order to place such Trust Fund in the same position at the end of 
such fiscal year as the position in which it would have been if the 
preceding provisions of this section had not been enacted. Such amounts 
shall be certified by the Commissioner to the Secretary of the Treasury 
from time to time as necessary to carry out the provisions of 
subsection.
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