Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to prohibit a law increasing the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives from taking effect until an election of Representatives has intervened, and to permit a law otherwise varying such compensation to take effect upon enactment.

Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits any law increasing the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives from taking effect until an election of Representatives has intervened.

Repeals the twenty-seventh amendment to the Constitution.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 33 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 33

  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
  prohibit a law increasing the compensation for the services of the 
 Senators and Representatives from taking effect until an election of 
 Representatives has intervened, and to permit a law otherwise varying 
            such compensation to take effect upon enactment.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 6, 2013

Mr. Barrow of Georgia introduced the following joint resolution; which 
             was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
  prohibit a law increasing the compensation for the services of the 
 Senators and Representatives from taking effect until an election of 
 Representatives has intervened, and to permit a law otherwise varying 
            such compensation to take effect upon enactment.

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled   (two-thirds of each House 
concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an 
amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be 
valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when 
ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States 
within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification:

                              ``Article--

    ``Section 1. No law increasing the compensation for the services of 
the Senators and Representatives shall take effect until an election of 
Representatives shall have intervened.
    ``Section 2. The twenty-seventh article of amendment to the 
Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.''.
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