HR 97 · 107th Congress 2001–2003, ended

Notch Fairness Act of 2001

Introduced Jan 3, 2001 Originated House Sponsor Ralph M. Hall D-TX

Fact sheet

Latest action · Feb 9, 2001 Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedJan 3, 2001
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Notch Fairness Act of 2001 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to revise the formula for the computation of minimum Old Age Insurance benefits for individuals who reached age 65 in or after 1979 and to whom applies the 15-year transition period for the changes in benefit computation rules enacted in the Social Security Amendments of 1977.

Sets forth a schedule of additional benefit increases for such beneficiaries (and related beneficiaries), with percentages declining from 55 percent to five percent and keyed to the year an individual became eligible for such benefits between 1979 and 1988.

Allows such beneficiaries, in the alternative, to receive lump sum payments over four years totaling $5,000.

Directs the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, when estimating any additional spending under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) resulting from this Act, to decrease the adjusted discretionary spending limits for budget authority and outlays for FY 2002 set forth in such Act by the increase in direct spending estimated to result from enactment of this Act for that fiscal year.

Cosponsors 98

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 3, 2001 to Oct 3, 2002, with 23 there on the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-WA	Adam Smith	Original	Jan 3, 2001
D-NY	Anthony D. Weiner	Original	Jan 3, 2001
D-CA	Bob Filner	Original	Jan 3, 2001
R-AL	Bob Riley	Original	Jan 3, 2001
R-NC	Charles H. Taylor	Original	Jan 3, 2001
D-AL	Earl F. Hilliard	Original	Jan 3, 2001
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel	Original	Jan 3, 2001
D-CA	Gary A. Condit	Original	Jan 3, 2001
D-TX	Gene Green	Original	Jan 3, 2001
R-NY	Jack Quinn	Original	Jan 3, 2001
D-MI	James A. Barcia	Original	Jan 3, 2001
D-ME	John Elias Baldacci	Original	Jan 3, 2001
R-WI	Mark Green	Original	Jan 3, 2001
D-TX	Martin Frost	Original	Jan 3, 2001
D-TX	Nick Lampson	Original	Jan 3, 2001

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Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Feb 9, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
Jan 3, 2001Introduced in House
Jan 3, 2001Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Social Welfare.

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