I 
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2011
To amend title II of the Social Security Act to restrict the application 
of the windfall elimination provision to individuals whose combined 
monthly income from benefits under such title and other monthly periodic 
payments exceeds $2,000 and to provide for a graduated implementation 
of such provision on amounts above such $2,000 amount. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 7, 2003
Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts (for himself, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. WOLF, Mr. MAT-
SUI, Mr. GOODE, Mr. SANDLIN, Mr. SAXTON, Mr. LYNCH, Mr. JONES of 
North Carolina, Mr. BOSWELL, Mrs. JO ANN DAVIS of Virginia, Mr. 
KLECZKA, Mr. TIBERI, Mr. JOHNSON of Illinois, Mr. FILNER, Mr. 
FROST, Mr. WYNN, Mr. PAUL, Mr. BROWN of Ohio, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, 
Mr. COSTELLO, Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. ROSS, Mr. DOGGETT, Mr. ABER-
CROMBIE, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. FARR, Mr. HOEFFEL, Mr. TURNER of 
Texas, Mr. WEINER, Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, Mr. DELAHUNT, Mr. 
GORDON, Mr. HOLDEN, Mr. HOLT, Mr. HONDA, Mr. INSLEE, Mr. KAN-
JORSKI, Mr. KENNEDY of Rhode Island, Mr. KILDEE, Ms. KILPATRICK, 
Mr. LAMPSON, Mr. MEEHAN, Mr. NEAL of Massachusetts, Mr. OBER-
STAR, Mr. OLVER, Mr. RODRIGUEZ, Mr. PASCRELL, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. 
SERRANO, Mr. STRICKLAND, Mr. WU, Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of Cali-
fornia, Mr. WEXLER, Mr. GUTIERREZ, Mr. DOYLE, Mr. ISRAEL, Mr. 
SCHIFF, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York, Mr. ALLEN, 
Mr. GONZALEZ, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. MICHAUD, Mrs. LOWEY, Mr. BISHOP 
of New York, Mr. ALEXANDER, Mr. CAPUANO, Ms. LINDA T. SA´NCHEZ 
of California, and Mr. EMANUEL) introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Ways and Means 
A BILL 
To amend title II of the Social Security Act to restrict 
the application of the windfall elimination provision to 
individuals whose combined monthly income from bene-
fits under such title and other monthly periodic payments 
exceeds $2,000 and to provide for a graduated implemen-
tation of such provision on amounts above such $2,000 
amount.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 
1. 
WINDFALL 
ELIMINATION 
PROVISION 
RE-
STRICTED TO TOTAL MONTHLY AMOUNTS IN 
EXCESS OF $2,000. 
Section 215(a)(7) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 415(a)(7)) is amended—
(1) in subparagraph (A), by inserting after 
‘‘service’),’’ the following: ‘‘if the sum of the individ-
ual’s primary insurance amount under paragraph 
(1) of this subsection and the portion of the monthly 
periodic payment which is attributable to noncovered 
service performed after 1956 (with such attribution 
being based on the proportionate number of years of 
such noncovered service) is greater than $2,000, 
then’’; 
(2) in the second sentence of subparagraph 
(B)(i), by striking ‘‘(with such attribution being 
based on the proportionate number of years of such 
noncovered service)’’ and inserting ‘‘(as determined 
under subparagraph (A))’’;
(3) in the last sentence of subparagraph (B)(i), 
by striking ‘‘the larger of’’ and all that follows 
through ‘‘subsection (i))’’ and inserting the fol-
lowing: ‘‘the primary insurance amount determined 
under paragraph (1), reduced (before the application 
of subsection (i)) by the applicable percentage speci-
fied in clause (iii) of the excess of such amount over 
the larger of the two amounts computed under the 
preceding two sentences,’’; and 
(4) by adding at the end of subparagraph (B) 
the following new clause: 
‘‘(iii) For purposes of clause (i), the applicable per-
centage in connection with any individual shall be the per-
centage specified in connection with such individual in the 
following table:
‘‘If the sum referred to in 
subparagraph 
(A) 
with 
respect to an individual 
is: 
The applicable percentage in 
connection with such indi-
vidual is: 
Over $2,000 but not over $2,250 ..
20%
Over $2,250 but not over $2,500 ..
40%
Over $2,500 but not over $2,750 ..
60%
Over $2,750 but not over $3,000 ..
80%
Over $3,000 ...................................
100%.’’.
SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
The amendments made by section 1 shall apply with 
respect to benefits for months after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act. Notwithstanding section 215(f)(1) of the 
Social Security Act, the Commissioner of Social Security 
shall recompute primary insurance amounts to the extent
necessary to carry out the amendments made by section 
1.
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