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107TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 570
To repeal the requirement relating to specific statutory authorization for
increases in judicial salaries, to provide for automatic annual increases
for judicial salaries, to provide for a 9.6 percent increase in judicial
salaries, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY 13, 2001
Mrs. BIGGERT (for herself, Mr. WICKER, Mr. THOMAS M. DAVIS of Virginia,
Mr. FRANK, and Mrs. JOHNSON of Connecticut) introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To repeal the requirement relating to specific statutory au-
thorization for increases in judicial salaries, to provide
for automatic annual increases for judicial salaries, to
provide for a 9.6 percent increase in judicial salaries,
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 ‘‘Federal Judicial Fair-
ness Act of 2001’’.
SEC. 2. JUDICIAL COST-OF-LIVING INCREASES.
(a) REPEAL OF STATUTORY REQUIREMENT RELAT-
ING TO JUDICIAL SALARIES.—Section 140 of the resolu-
tion entitled ‘‘A Joint Resolution making further con-
tinuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1982, and for
other purposes.’’, approved December 15, 1981 (Public
Law 97–92; 95 Stat. 1200; 28 U.S.C. 461 note), is re-
pealed.
(b) 
AUTOMATIC
ANNUAL
INCREASES.—Section
461(a) of title 28, United States Code, is amended to read
as follows:
‘‘(a)(1) Subject to paragraph (2), effective on the
first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on
or after January 1 of each calendar year, each salary rate
which is subject to adjustment under this section shall be
adjusted by an amount, rounded to the nearest multiple
of $100 (or if midway between multiples of $100, to the
next higher multiple of $100) equal to the percentage of
such salary rate which corresponds to the most recent per-
centage change in the ECI (relative to the date described
in the next sentence), as determined under section
704(a)(1) of the Ethics Reform Act of 1989. The appro-
priate date under this sentence is the first day of the fiscal
year that begins in the preceding calendar year.
‘‘(2) In no event shall the percentage adjustment tak-
ing effect under paragraph (1) in any calendar year (be-
fore rounding), in any salary rate, exceed the percentage
adjustment taking effect in such calendar year under sec-
tion 5303 of title 5 in the rates of pay under the General
Schedule.’’.
(c) JUDICIAL SALARY INCREASES.—Effective on the
first day of the first applicable pay period that begins on
or after the date of the enactment of this Act, the rate
of basic pay for the Chief Justice of the United States,
an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States, a judge of a United States circuit court, a judge
of a district court of the United States, a judge of the
United States Court of International Trade, a bankruptcy
judge, and a full-time magistrate judge shall be increased
in the amount of 9.6 percent of their respective rates (as
last in effect before the increase), rounded to the nearest
multiple of $100 (or, if midway between multiples of $100,
to the next higher multiple of $100).
SEC. 3. COORDINATION RULE.
If a pay adjustment under section 2 is to be made
for an office or position as of the same date as any other
pay adjustment affecting such office or position, the ad-
justment under section 2 shall be made first.
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