Congressional Pay for Performance Act

Congressional Pay for Performance Act - Provides that, if the Congress has not passed all general appropriation bills before the beginning of a fiscal year, then the permanent appropriation for the compensation of Members of Congress shall not be effective for such fiscal year.

Makes it out of order for either the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider the legislative branch appropriation bill for any fiscal year until all other general appropriation bills for such fiscal year have been presented to the President.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 806 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 806

To modify the provision of law which provides a permanent appropriation 
  for the compensation of Members of Congress, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 15, 2005

Mr. Bilirakis introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 
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 modify the provision of law which provides a permanent appropriation 
  for the compensation 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 ``Congressional Pay for Performance 
Act''.

SEC. 2. MODIFICATION OF PERMANENT APPROPRIATION FOR MEMBERS' PAY.

    Subsection (c) of section 130 of the joint resolution entitled 
``Joint resolution making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 
1982, and for other purposes'' (Public Law 97-51; 2 U.S.C. 31 note) is 
amended--
            (1) by striking ``(c) Effective'' and inserting ``(c)(1) 
        Except as provided in paragraph (2), effective''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(2) If Congress has not passed all general appropriation bills 
before the beginning of a fiscal year, then the appropriation contained 
in paragraph (1) shall not be effective with respect to such fiscal 
year.''.

SEC. 3. CONSIDERATION OF THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATION.

    It shall not be in order in either the House of Representatives or 
the Senate to consider the general appropriation bill making 
appropriations for the legislative branch for any fiscal year unless 
and until all other general appropriation bills for such fiscal year 
have been presented to the President for signature under section 7 of 
article I of the Constitution of the United States.
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