HR 9418 United States House · 117th Congress

27th Amendment Enforcement Act

This bill restores cost-of-living pay adjustments for Members of Congress that were illegally blocked by prior laws violating the 27th Amendment. It directly affects current and past Members of Congress whose pay was reduced by laws passed before elections, which the 27th Amendment prohibits. The bill amends existing law to retroactively apply the pay rates that would have been in effect without those blocked adjustments, calculating the correct rates based on what would have applied before the prohibited laws. The House and Senate leaders must determine and publish these restored rates within 60 days of the bill's enactment.
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Dec 2022
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Introduced Dec 2, 2022 Last action Dec 2, 2022
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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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