Federal Judicial Fairness Act of 2011

Federal Judicial Fairness Act of 2011 - Repeals the requirement limiting salary increases for federal judges or Supreme Court justices to those specifically authorized by Act of Congress.

Amends the federal judicial code to apply the same automatic annual cost-of-living adjustment to judicial salaries as takes effect under the General Schedule for civilian federal employees.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 569 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 569

           To provide for fairness for the Federal judiciary.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 14, 2011

  Mrs. Feinstein (for herself, Mr. Hatch, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Graham, Mr. 
Reid, Mr. Lee, Mr. Inouye, Mr. Bingaman, Mr. Lieberman, and Mr. Kerry) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
           To provide for fairness for the Federal judiciary.

    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 ``Federal Judicial Fairness Act of 
2011''.

SEC. 2. JUDICIAL COST-OF-LIVING INCREASES.

    (a) Repeal of Statutory Requirement Relating to Judicial 
Salaries.--Section 140 of the resolution entitled ``A Joint Resolution 
making further continuing 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Stat. 1200; 28 U.S.C. 461 note), is repealed.
    (b) Automatic Salary Adjustments.--Section 461(a) of title 28, 
United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
    ``(a) Effective at the beginning of the first applicable pay period 
commencing on or after the first day of the month in which an 
adjustment takes effect under sections 5303 and 5304 of title 5 in the 
rates of pay under the General Schedule, 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 overall average 
percentage of the adjustment in the rates of pay under the General 
Schedule.''.
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