I 111th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2764 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 A BILL For the relief of Lilly M. Ledbetter.

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.

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.