[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7044 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7044

To withhold the pay of Members of the House of Representatives who cast 
 a vote or record their presence in the House by proxy, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 28, 2020

Mr. Budd (for himself, Mr. Biggs, Mr. Bergman, Mr. Rouzer, Mr. Curtis, 
    Mr. Posey, Mr. Bishop of North Carolina, and Mr. Mooney of West 
  Virginia) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                   Committee on House Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
To withhold the pay of Members of the House of Representatives who cast 
 a vote or record their presence in the House by proxy, 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 ``No Pay for Proxy Voting Act''.

SEC. 2. WITHHOLDING PAY OF MEMBERS WHO VOTE BY PROXY.

    (a) Withholding.--If on any day during a Congress a Member of the 
House of Representatives uses a designated proxy to cast a vote in the 
House or record the Member's presence in the House in response to a 
quorum call, the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of 
Representatives shall--
            (1) withhold from the payments otherwise required to be 
        made with respect to a pay period for the compensation of the 
        Member an amount equal to the product of--
                    (A) an amount equal to one day's worth of pay under 
                the annual rate of pay applicable to the Member under 
                section 601(a) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 
                1946 (2 U.S.C. 4501); and
                    (B) the number of days during the pay period on 
                which the Member uses a designated proxy to cast a vote 
                in the House or record the Member's presence in the 
                House in response to a quorum call; and
            (2) deposit in an escrow account all amounts withheld under 
        paragraph (1).
    (b) Release of Amounts at End of the Congress.--In order to ensure 
that this section is carried out in a manner that shall not vary the 
compensation of Representatives in violation of the twenty-seventh 
article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the 
Chief Administrative Officer shall release for payments to Members any 
amounts remaining in any escrow account under this section on the last 
day of the Congress during which the amounts were deposited in the 
account.
    (c) Role of Secretary of the Treasury.--The Secretary of the 
Treasury shall provide the Chief Administrative Officer with such 
assistance as may be necessary to enable the Chief Administrative 
Officer to carry out this section.
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