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111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2764 
For the relief of Lilly M. Ledbetter. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 8, 2009 
Ms. WOOLSEY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and 
Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
For the relief of Lilly M. Ledbetter. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. PAYMENT OF BACK PAY. 
The Secretary of the Treasury shall pay, out of any 
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the 
sum of $60,000.00 to Lilly M. Ledbetter of Jacksonville, 
Alabama, for compensation for back pay not received as 
an employee of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Inc. 
The sum represents the amount she was awarded by the 
United States district court in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire 
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& Rubber Co., Civil Action No. 99–C–3137–E (N.D. Ala. 
Sept. 24, 2003) for back pay, but denied by the Supreme 
Court, in accordance with title VII of the Civil Rights Act 
of 1964. 
SEC. 2. SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS. 
(a) ENTITLEMENT TO BENEFITS.—For purposes of 
determining the entitlement to, and the amount of, old- 
age insurance benefits under title II of the Social Security 
Act based on the wages and self-employment income of 
Lilly M. Ledbetter of Jacksonville, Alabama, the Commis-
sioner of Social Security shall increase the amount cred-
ited to her as remuneration paid to her in connection with 
service performed for Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company 
for each pay period beginning on or after November 1, 
1985, and ending on or before October 31, 1998, by the 
amount of pay which was alleged in her complaint in the 
case cited in section 1 to be paid which was illegally denied 
her in connection with such service for such pay period 
(totaling $223,776 as the amount for all such pay peri-
ods). 
(b) 
PRIMARY
INSURANCE
AMOUNT.—Notwith-
standing section 215(f)(1) of the Social Security Act, the 
Commissioner of Social Security shall recompute the pri-
mary insurance amount of Lilly M. Ledbetter so as to take 
into account the provisions of this section solely for pur-
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poses of determining her old-age insurance benefits pursu-
ant to subsection (a). 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE
AND PAYMENT
FOR PRIOR 
MONTHS.—The provisions of this section shall apply with 
respect to benefits for months beginning before, on, or 
after the date of the enactment of this Act. Benefit 
amounts payable solely by reason of the provisions of this 
Act for months preceding the date of the enactment of 
this Act shall be paid in a lump sum. 
(d) RESTORATION
OF TRUST FUND BALANCE.— 
There are appropriated for fiscal years ending after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, from amounts otherwise 
available in the general fund of the Treasury, to the Fed-
eral Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund such 
sums as the Commissioner of Social Security deems nec-
essary from time to time for each fiscal year, on account 
of— 
(1) amounts payable under title II of the Social 
Security Act solely by reason of the preceding provi-
sions of this section, 
(2) the additional administrative expenses re-
sulting therefrom, and 
(3) any loss in interest to such Trust Fund re-
sulting from the payment of such amounts, 
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in order to place such Trust Fund in the same position 
at the end of such fiscal year as the position in which it 
would have been if the preceding provisions of this section 
had not been enacted. Such amounts shall be certified by 
the Commissioner to the Secretary of the Treasury from 
time to time as necessary to carry out the provisions of 
subsection. 
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