Title: Do Your Job Act
Policy area: Congress

Summary:
Do Your Job Act
This bill reduces the pay for Members of Congress in certain circumstances, and it eliminates the automatic appropriation of funds for specified purposes.
Specifically, if Congress does not agree to a budget resolution by the beginning of a fiscal year, each Member's annual pay shall be reduced to 90% of that Member's pay in the previous fiscal year. This reduction shall apply after the November 2020 general election.
In addition, the bill eliminates the automatic appropriation of funds for Members' compensation and for certain administrative expenses.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3440 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3440

To amend the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to reduce the rates 
of pay of Members of Congress during a fiscal year if Congress has not 
 agreed to a concurrent resolution on the budget for such fiscal year, 
  to repeal the automatic appropriation of funds for the salaries of 
              Members of Congress, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 24, 2019

 Mr. Burchett introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on 
Oversight and Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to reduce the rates 
of pay of Members of Congress during a fiscal year if Congress has not 
 agreed to a concurrent resolution on the budget for such fiscal year, 
  to repeal the automatic appropriation of funds for the salaries of 
              Members of Congress, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Do Your Job Act''.

SEC. 2. REDUCTION IN RATES OF PAY FOR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS FOR FAILURE 
              TO AGREE TO BUDGET RESOLUTION.

    (a) Reduction.--Section 601(a)(2) of the Legislative Reorganization 
Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 4501(2)) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(2) If, by the first day of a fiscal year, both Houses of 
Congress have not agreed to a concurrent resolution on the budget 
pursuant to section 301 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 for 
such fiscal year, the annual rate of pay for each of the positions 
described in paragraph (1) for pay periods occurring during such fiscal 
year shall be equal to 90 percent of the annual rate of pay for such 
position for the most recent pay period preceding such fiscal year.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to pay periods occurring after the date of the 
regularly scheduled general election for Federal office held in 
November 2020.

SEC. 3. REPEAL OF AUTOMATIC APPROPRIATION OF SALARIES OF MEMBERS OF 
              CONGRESS.

    (a) Repeal.--Effective with respect to each fiscal year beginning 
on or after the date of the enactment of this Act, section 130(c) of 
Public Law 97-51 (2 U.S.C. 4502) is repealed.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 601(a)(1) of the Legislative 
Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 4501(1)) is amended by striking 
``The annual rate of pay'' and inserting ``Subject to the availability 
of appropriations, the annual rate of pay''.
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