I 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4551 
To require the establishment of a Consumer Price Index for Older Americans 
to compute cost-of-living increases for monthly insurance benefits under 
title II of the Social Security Act, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 12, 2016 
Mr. JOLLY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and 
the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speak-
er, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the ju-
risdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To require the establishment of a Consumer Price Index 
for Older Americans to compute cost-of-living increases 
for monthly insurance benefits under title II of the Social 
Security Act, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Keeping our Promise 
to Seniors Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. CONSUMER PRICE INDEX FOR OLDER AMERICANS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Bureau of Labor Statistics 
of the Department of Labor shall prepare and publish an 
index for each calendar month to be known as the ‘‘Con-
sumer Price Index for Older Americans’’ that— 
(1) measures changes over time in the cost of 
living for a population that consists solely of individ-
uals living in the United States who are 62 years of 
age or older; 
(2) is specifically designed to reflect the geo-
graphic areas in which such individuals reside, the 
goods and services purchased by such individuals, 
and the prices typically by such individuals for those 
goods and services; and 
(3) is not based on any other consumer price 
index published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Subsection (a) shall apply 
with respect to calendar months beginning after the date 
that is 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 3. COMPUTATION OF COST-OF-LIVING INCREASES FOR 
OLD-AGE AND SURVIVOR’S BENEFITS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 215(i) of the Social Secu-
rity Act (42 U.S.C. 415(i)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)(G), by inserting before the 
period the following: ‘‘, and, with respect to any 
monthly insurance benefit payable under this title, 
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effective for adjustments under this subsection to 
the primary insurance amount on which such benefit 
is based (or to any such benefit under section 227 
or 228), the applicable Consumer Price Index shall 
be deemed to be the Consumer Price Index for Older 
Americans and such primary insurance amount shall 
be deemed adjusted under this subsection using such 
Index’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘and by sec-
tion 9001’’ and inserting ‘‘, by section 9001’’, and 
by inserting after ‘‘1986,’’ the following: ‘‘and by 
section 3(a) of the Keeping our Promise to Seniors 
Act,’’. 
(b) CONFORMING
AMENDMENTS
IN
APPLICABLE 
FORMER LAW.—Section 215(i)(1)(C) of such Act, as in 
effect in December 1978 and applied in certain cases 
under the provisions of such Act in effect after December 
1978, is amended by inserting before the period the fol-
lowing: ‘‘, and, with respect to any monthly insurance ben-
efit payable under this title, effective for adjustments 
under this subsection to the primary insurance amount on 
which such benefit is based (or to any such benefit under 
section 227 or 228), the applicable Consumer Price Index 
shall be deemed to be the Consumer Price Index for Older 
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Americans and such primary insurance amount shall be 
deemed adjusted under this subsection using such Index’’. 
(c) NO EFFECT ON ADJUSTMENTS UNDER OTHER 
LAWS.—Section 215(i) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 415(i)) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(6) Any provision of law (other than in this title) 
which provides for adjustment of an amount based on a 
change in benefit amounts resulting from a determination 
made under this subsection shall be applied and adminis-
tered without regard to the amendments made by section 
3 of the Keeping our Promise to Seniors Act.’’. 
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
paragraph (1) shall apply to determinations made with re-
spect to cost-of-living computation quarters beginning 
after the date that is 1 year after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act. 
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