Cost of Living Fairness Act of 2006
Latest action · Nov 2, 2006 Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
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.
- IntroducedSep 29, 2006
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Cost of Living Fairness Act of 2006 - Requires the Commissioner of Labor Statistics to develop and report to Congress and the Comptroller General on a methodology for determining the cost of living in each state which accounts for the costs of housing, goods, and services.
Requires the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on how federal benefits provided to beneficiaries in each state under certain programs would be distributed if: (1) the cost of living in each state, as determined under the methodology, were a factor in the determination of such benefits; and (2) the methodology were applied so that federal benefits vary only to the extent that such determination would result in an increase of benefits to beneficiaries in a state. Specifies such benefit programs as all those providing vouchers, coupons, cash grants, or cash reimbursements based on the beneficiary's income.
Cosponsors 27
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Sep 29, 2006.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-FL | Alcee L. Hastings | Original | Sep 29, 2006 |
| D-MA | Barney Frank | Original | Sep 29, 2006 |
| D-MA | Bill Delahunt | Original | Sep 29, 2006 |
| D-MD | C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger | Original | Sep 29, 2006 |
| D-NY | Charles B. Rangel | Original | Sep 29, 2006 |
| D-FL | Debbie Wasserman Schultz | Original | Sep 29, 2006 |
| D-OH | Dennis J. Kucinich | Original | Sep 29, 2006 |
| R-AK | Don Young | Original | Sep 29, 2006 |
| D-MA | Edward J. Markey | Original | Sep 29, 2006 |
| D-CA | Fortney Pete Stark | Original | Sep 29, 2006 |
| D-NJ | Frank Pallone, Jr. | Original | Sep 29, 2006 |
| D-CA | George Miller | Original | Sep 29, 2006 |
| D-NY | Gregory W. Meeks | Original | Sep 29, 2006 |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Original | Sep 29, 2006 |
| D-NY | Jerrold Nadler | Original | Sep 29, 2006 |
| D-MI | John Conyers, Jr. | Original | Sep 29, 2006 |
| D-MA | John W. Olver | Original | Sep 29, 2006 |
| D-NY | Jose E. Serrano | Original | Sep 29, 2006 |
| D-CA | Juanita Millender-McDonald | Original | Sep 29, 2006 |
| D-CA | Lynn C. Woolsey | Original | Sep 29, 2006 |
| D-NY | Major R. Owens | Original | Sep 29, 2006 |
| D-MA | Martin T. Meehan | Original | Sep 29, 2006 |
| D-MA | Michael E. Capuano | Original | Sep 29, 2006 |
| D-AZ | Raúl M. Grijalva | Original | Sep 29, 2006 |
| D-FL | Robert Wexler | Original | Sep 29, 2006 |
| D-TX | Sheila Jackson Lee | Original | Sep 29, 2006 |
| D-NJ | Steven R. Rothman | Original | Sep 29, 2006 |
Committees 4
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Sep 29, 2006 |
| Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee | Referred Nov 2, 2006 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Sep 29, 2006 |
| House | Financial Services Committee | Referred Sep 29, 2006 |
| Housing and Insurance Subcommittee | Referred Oct 18, 2006 | |
| House | Agriculture Committee | Referred Sep 29, 2006 |
| Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee | Referred Oct 16, 2006 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Nov 2, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
- Oct 18, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
- Oct 16, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
- Sep 29, 2006Introduced in House
- Sep 29, 2006Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Financial Services, and Agriculture, 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.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To require the Commissioner of Labor Statistics to develop a methodology for measuring the cost of living in each State, and to require the Comptroller General to determine how certain Federal benefits would be increased if the determination of those benefits were based on that methodology.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Cost of Living Fairness Act of 2006
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Economics and Public Finance.
- Commerce
- Congress
- Congressional investigations
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Consumer price indexes
- Cost of living
- Cost of living adjustments
- Economics and Public Finance
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government statistics
- Governmental investigations
- Labor and Employment
- Labor statistics
- Legislation
- Social Welfare
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 29, 2006Introduced in House
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