ETHICS REFORM ACT OF 1989
Public Law 101-194
ETHICS REFORM ACT OF 1989
194
101-194
Statute Compilation
United States House of Representatives
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1989-11-30
ETHICS REFORM ACT OF 1989
[Public Law 101-194]
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SEC. 704. REVISION IN METHOD BY WHICH ANNUAL PAY ADJUSTMENTS FOR CERTAIN EXECUTIVE, LEGISLATIVE, AND JUDICIAL POSITIONS ARE TO BE MADE.
(a) Percent Change in the Employment Cost Index.—
(1) Method for computing percent change in the eci.—
(A) Definitions.—For purposes of this paragraph—
(i) the term “Employment Cost Index” or “ECI” means the Employment Cost Index (wages and salaries, private industry workers) published quarterly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics; and
(ii) the term “base quarter” means the 3-month period ending on December 31 of a year.
(B) Method.—For purposes of the provisions of law amended by paragraph (2), the “most recent percentage change in the ECI”, as of any date, shall be one-half of 1 percent less than the percentage (rounded to the nearest one-tenth of 1 percent) derived by—
(i) reducing—
(I) the ECI for the last base quarter prior to that date, by
(II) the ECI for the second to last base quarter prior to that date,
(ii) dividing the difference under clause (i) by the ECI for the base quarter referred to in clause (i)(II), and
(iii) multiplying the quotient under clause (ii) by 100,
except that no percentage change determined under this paragraph shall be—
(I) less than zero; or
(II) greater than 5 percent.
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