[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2581 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2581

 To provide that the public debt limit shall not affect timely payment 
                  in full of Social Security benefits.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 18, 2011

Mr. Posey (for himself, Mr. Webster, Mr. Miller of Florida, Mr. Austin 
    Scott of Georgia, Mr. Latta, Mr. Griffith of Virginia, and Mr. 
 Farenthold) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide that the public debt limit shall not affect timely payment 
                  in full of Social Security benefits.

    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 ``Social Security Check Guarantee Act 
of 2011''.

SEC. 2. TIMELY PAYMENT IN FULL OF SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS 
              NOTWITHSTANDING THE PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT.

    (a) In General.--Nothing in section 3101 of title 31, United States 
Code, shall be construed to have the effect of--
            (1) precluding or otherwise limiting timely redemption of 
        obligations owed to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance 
        Trust Fund or the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund to 
        the extent necessary to provide for timely payment in full of 
        benefits payable from such Trust Funds, or
            (2) otherwise precluding or limiting timely payment in full 
        of benefits payable from such Trust Funds.
    (b) Operation of the Public Debt Limit in Other Respects.--In 
applying the limitation on public debt under section 3101 of title 31, 
United States Code, subsection (a) shall be taken into account before 
applying such limitation to any other matter affected by such section.
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