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[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 915 Reported in House (RH)]

                                                 Union Calendar No. 223
106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 915

                          [Report No. 106-387]

 To authorize a cost of living adjustment in the pay of administrative 
                              law judges.

_______________________________________________________________________

                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 2, 1999

Mr. Gekas (for himself, Mr. Gilman, Mr. Davis of Virginia, Mr. Filner, 
 Mr. Wolf, and Mrs. Morella) introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

                             June 10, 1999

               The Committee on the Judiciary discharged

                             June 10, 1999

            Rereferred to the Committee on Government Reform

                            October 18, 1999

Additional sponsors: Mr. Kasich, Mr. Bliley, Mr. Ford, Mr. Tierney, Ms. 
            Woolsey, Mr. Wise, Mr. Shays, and Mr. Hostettler

                            October 18, 1999

  Reported from the Committee on Government Reform with an amendment, 
   committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the 
                    Union, and ordered to be printed
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

 
 To authorize a cost of living adjustment in the pay of administrative 
                              law judges.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

<DELETED>SECTION 1. PAY OF ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGES.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Section 5372(b) of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``(A)'' after 
        ``(1)'' and by striking the second sentence and inserting the 
        following:</DELETED>
<DELETED>    ``(B) Within level AL-3, there shall be 6 rates of basic 
pay, designated as AL-3, rates A through F, respectively. Level AL-2 
and level AL-1 shall each have 1 rate of basic pay.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    ``(C) The rate of basic pay for AL-3, rate A, may not be 
less than 65 percent of the rate of basic pay for level IV of the 
Executive Schedule, and the rate of basic pay for AL-1 may not exceed 
the rate for level IV of the Executive Schedule.'';</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) in paragraph (3)(A), by striking ``upon'' each 
        time it appears and inserting ``at the beginning of the next 
        pay period following''; and</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (3) by adding at the end the following:</DELETED>
<DELETED>    ``(4) Subject to paragraph (1), effective at the beginning 
of the first applicable pay period commencing on or after the first day 
of the month in which an adjustment takes effect under section 5303 in 
the rates of basic pay under the General Schedule, each rate of basic 
pay for administrative law judges shall be adjusted by an amount 
determined by the President to be appropriate.''</DELETED>

SECTION 1. PAY OF ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGES.

    Section 5372(b) of title 5, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``(A)'' after ``(1)'' 
        and by striking all after the first sentence and inserting the 
        following:
    ``(B) Within level AL-3, there shall be 6 rates of basic pay, 
designated as AL-3, rates A through F, respectively. Level AL-2 and 
level AL-1 shall each have 1 rate of basic pay.
    ``(C) The rate of basic pay for AL-3, rate A, may not be less than 
65 percent of the rate of basic pay for level IV of the Executive 
Schedule, and the rate of basic pay for AL-1 may not exceed the rate 
for level IV of the Executive Schedule.'';
            (2) in paragraph (3)(A), by striking ``upon'' each time it 
        appears and inserting ``at the beginning of the next pay period 
        following''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(4) Subject to paragraph (1), effective at the beginning of the 
first applicable pay period commencing on or after the first day of the 
month in which an adjustment takes effect under section 5303 in the 
rates of basic pay under the General Schedule, each rate of basic pay 
for administrative law judges shall be adjusted by an amount determined 
by the President to be appropriate.''
                                     

                                                 Union Calendar No. 223

106th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                               H. R. 915

                          [Report No. 106-387]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

 To authorize a cost of living adjustment in the pay of administrative 
                              law judges.

_______________________________________________________________________

                            October 18, 1999

  Reported from the Committee on Government Reform with an amendment, 
   committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the 
                    Union, and ordered to be printed
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