[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 141 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 141

   To reduce the pay of Members of the House of Representatives if a 
         Speaker is not elected on the first day of a Congress.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 9, 2023

  Ms. Craig introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on 
     Oversight and Accountability, 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


 
   To reduce the pay of Members of the House of Representatives if a 
         Speaker is not elected on the first day of a Congress.

    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 Disarray Act''.

SEC. 2. REDUCTION OF PAY OF MEMBERS OF HOUSE IF SPEAKER IS NOT ELECTED.

    (a) Reduction of Pay.--
            (1) Reduction.--If, by the end of the first day of a 
        Congress, the House of Representatives has not elected a 
        Speaker, the annual rate of pay applicable under section 601(a) 
        of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 4501) 
        with respect to each Member of the House of Representatives for 
        the year shall be reduced by an amount equal to the product 
        of--
                    (A) an amount equal to one day's worth of pay under 
                such annual rate; and
                    (B) the number of 24-hour periods occurring during 
                the Congress during which no Speaker has been elected 
                for the Congress.
            (2) Effective date.--This subsection shall apply with 
        respect to the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress and each 
        succeeding Congress.
    (b) Rule for One Hundred Eighteenth Congress.--
            (1) Holding salaries in escrow.--If, by the end of the 
        first day of the One Hundred Eighteenth Congress, the House of 
        Representatives has not elected a Speaker, the Chief 
        Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives, or an 
        employee of the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer who 
        is designated by the Chief Administrative Officer to carry out 
        this Act, shall--
                    (A) deposit in an escrow account and exclude from 
                the payments otherwise required to be made for the 
                compensation of each Member of the House of 
                Representatives with respect to a pay period during 
                which the House has not elected a Speaker an amount 
                equal to the product of--
                            (i) the daily rate of pay of the Member 
                        under section 601(a) of the Legislative 
                        Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 4501); and
                            (ii) the number of 24-hour periods during 
                        which no Speaker has been elected for the One 
                        Hundred Eighteenth Congress; and
                    (B) release amounts deposited in an escrow account 
                under subparagraph (A) to such Member of the House of 
                Representatives only upon the expiration of the period 
                described in paragraph (2).
            (2) Period described.--The period described in this 
        paragraph is the period that--
                    (A) begins on the first day of the One Hundred 
                Eighteenth Congress; and
                    (B) ends on the earlier of--
                            (i) the date on the House elects a Speaker 
                        for the One Hundred Eighteenth Congress; or
                            (ii) the last day of the One Hundred 
                        Eighteenth Congress.
            (3) Withholding and remittance of amounts from payments 
        held in escrow.--The Chief Administrative Officer of the House 
        of Representatives, or an employee of the Office of the Chief 
        Administrative Officer who is designated by the Chief 
        Administrative Officer to carry out this Act, shall provide for 
        the same withholding and remittance with respect to a payment 
        deposited in an escrow account under paragraph (1) that would 
        apply to the payment if the payment were not subject to 
        paragraph (1).
            (4) Release of amounts at end of the congress.--In order to 
        ensure that this subsection is carried out in a manner that 
        shall not vary the compensation of Representatives in violation 
        of the twenty-seventh amendment to the Constitution of the 
        United States, the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of 
        Representatives, or an employee of the Office of the Chief 
        Administrative Officer who is designated by the Chief 
        Administrative Officer to carry out this Act, shall release for 
        payment to Members of the House of Representatives any amounts 
        remaining in any escrow account under this section on the last 
        day of the One Hundred Eighteenth Congress.
    (c) Member Defined.--In this section, the term ``Member of the 
House of Representatives'' means an individual serving in a position in 
the House of Representatives which is covered under subparagraph (A), 
(B), or (C) of section 601(a)(1) of the Legislative Reorganization Act 
of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 4501(1)).
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