Equal COLA Act
Latest action · Feb 8, 2023 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.
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.
- IntroducedFeb 8, 2023
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Equal COLA Act
This bill revises the formula used to calculate the cost-of-living adjustment for annuities paid under the Federal Employees Retirement System.
Cosponsors 95
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 8, 2023 to Jan 3, 2025; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-VA | Abigail Davis Spanberger | Original | Feb 8, 2023 |
| D-NJ | Andy Kim | Feb 9, 2023 | |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Feb 9, 2023 | |
| D-MD | Jamie Raskin | Feb 9, 2023 | |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | Feb 9, 2023 | |
| D-DE | Lisa Blunt Rochester | Feb 9, 2023 | |
| D-WI | Mark Pocan | Feb 9, 2023 | |
| D-CA | Ro Khanna | Feb 9, 2023 | |
| D-MA | Stephen F. Lynch | Feb 9, 2023 | |
| D-OR | Suzanne Bonamici | Feb 10, 2023 | |
| R-PA | Brian K. Fitzpatrick | Feb 14, 2023 | |
| D-CA | Mark DeSaulnier | Feb 14, 2023 | |
| D-WA | Derek Kilmer | Feb 17, 2023 | |
| D-TX | Henry Cuellar | Mar 27, 2023 | |
| D-FL | Jared Moskowitz | Mar 28, 2023 | |
| D-LA | Troy A. Carter | Apr 10, 2023 | |
| D-OR | Val T. Hoyle | Apr 10, 2023 | |
| D-MD | Glenn Ivey | Apr 17, 2023 | |
| D-TX | Greg Casar | Apr 17, 2023 | |
| D-FL | Maxwell Frost | Apr 20, 2023 | |
| D-NJ | Donald M. Payne, Jr. | May 2, 2023 | |
| D-NM | Teresa Leger Fernandez | May 2, 2023 | |
| D-NJ | Donald Norcross | May 9, 2023 | |
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | May 15, 2023 | |
| D-FL | Darren Soto | May 24, 2023 | |
| R-NE | Don Bacon | May 30, 2023 | |
| D-NY | Paul Tonko | Jun 20, 2023 | |
| D-MD | David J. Trone | Jun 22, 2023 | |
| D-NM | Melanie A. Stansbury | Jun 22, 2023 | |
| D-NV | Dina Titus | Jul 11, 2023 | |
| D-CO | Jason Crow | Jul 11, 2023 | |
| D-VA | Jennifer L. McClellan | Jul 11, 2023 | |
| D-CO | Joe Neguse | Jul 11, 2023 | |
| D-PA | Madeleine Dean | Jul 11, 2023 | |
| R-NJ | Christopher H. Smith | Jul 26, 2023 | |
| D-CA | Judy Chu | Aug 29, 2023 | |
| D-CA | Anna G. Eshoo | Sep 5, 2023 | |
| D-NM | Gabe Vasquez | Sep 12, 2023 | |
| D-NJ | Frank Pallone, Jr. | Sep 18, 2023 | |
| D-CA | Adam B. Schiff | Sep 28, 2023 | |
| D-CA | Zoe Lofgren | Nov 2, 2023 | |
| D-IL | Sean Casten | Nov 6, 2023 | |
| D-VA | Jennifer Wexton | Nov 14, 2023 | |
| D-CA | Nanette Diaz Barragán | Nov 28, 2023 | |
| D-ME | Chellie Pingree | Dec 13, 2023 | |
| D-CA | Maxine Waters | Dec 14, 2023 | |
| D-MI | Shri Thanedar | Feb 13, 2024 | |
| D-OR | Andrea Salinas | Feb 28, 2024 | |
| D-MO | Emanuel Cleaver | Feb 28, 2024 | |
| D-GA | Lucy McBath | Mar 12, 2024 | |
| D-TX | Colin Z. Allred | Mar 29, 2024 | |
| D-RI | Seth Magaziner | Apr 9, 2024 | |
| D-MN | Ilhan Omar | Apr 10, 2024 | |
| D-OH | Greg Landsman | Apr 16, 2024 | |
| D-CO | Brittany Pettersen | May 15, 2024 | |
| D-CA | Katie Porter | May 15, 2024 | |
| D-NY | Yvette D. Clarke | May 15, 2024 | |
| R-NY | Michael Lawler | May 21, 2024 | |
| D-PA | Brendan F. Boyle | Jun 13, 2024 | |
| R-OH | Michael R. Turner | Jun 26, 2024 | |
| D-CA | Jimmy Panetta | Sep 6, 2024 | |
| D-WA | Suzan K. DelBene | Sep 6, 2024 | |
| D-KY | Morgan McGarvey | Sep 27, 2024 | |
| D-NY | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez | Oct 4, 2024 | |
| D-NY | Jerrold Nadler | Oct 4, 2024 | |
| D-MD | John P. Sarbanes | Oct 4, 2024 | |
| D-PA | Mary Gay Scanlon | Oct 4, 2024 | |
| D-IL | Nikki Budzinski | Oct 4, 2024 | |
| D-PA | Christopher R. Deluzio | Oct 8, 2024 | |
| D-NY | Grace Meng | Oct 11, 2024 | |
| D-CA | Julia Brownley | Oct 11, 2024 | |
| D-VT | Becca Balint | Oct 22, 2024 | |
| D-CA | Josh Harder | Oct 22, 2024 | |
| D-CA | Ted Lieu | Oct 22, 2024 | |
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Nov 1, 2024 | |
| D-NY | Daniel S. Goldman | Nov 1, 2024 | |
| D-IL | Danny K. Davis | Nov 1, 2024 | |
| D-CA | Kevin Mullin | Nov 1, 2024 | |
| D-WA | Pramila Jayapal | Nov 1, 2024 | |
| D-TX | Lizzie Fletcher | Nov 29, 2024 | |
| D-IN | André Carson | Dec 11, 2024 | |
| D-IN | Frank J. Mrvan | Dec 11, 2024 | |
| D-NY | Timothy M. Kennedy | Dec 11, 2024 | |
| D-FL | Debbie Wasserman Schultz | Dec 16, 2024 | |
| D-OH | Emilia Strong Sykes | Dec 16, 2024 | |
| D-CA | Jared Huffman | Dec 16, 2024 | |
| D-CA | John Garamendi | Dec 16, 2024 | |
| D-NJ | Josh Gottheimer | Dec 16, 2024 | |
| D-CA | Juan Vargas | Dec 16, 2024 | |
| D-CA | Mike Levin | Dec 16, 2024 | |
| D-FL | Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick | Dec 16, 2024 | |
| D-NC | Donald G. Davis | Dec 20, 2024 | |
| D-CA | Mark Takano | Dec 20, 2024 | |
| D-MI | Rashida Tlaib | Dec 20, 2024 | |
| D-MD | Kweisi Mfume | Jan 3, 2025 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Oversight and Government Reform Committee | Referred Feb 8, 2023 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 8, 2023Introduced in House
- Feb 8, 2023Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Lists H781H.R. 866–882 | — | Feb 8, 2023 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 169, no. 26, February 8, 2023, page H781.
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
About this bill 1
Products that name it in their title: its number, its law number or one of its short titles.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| IF12354 | The FERS Cost-of-Living-Adjustment (COLA) and the Equal COLA Act (H.R. 491 and S. 624) | Resource | Apr 1, 2025 |
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 304 | Equal COLA Act | Reintroduction of | Jan 13, 2021 |
| S 3194 | Equal COLA Act | Identical bill | Nov 1, 2023 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend title 5, United States Code, to achieve parity between the cost-of-living adjustment with respect to an annuity under the Federal Employees Retirement System and an annuity under the Civil Service Retirement System, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Equal COLA Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Government Operations and Politics.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 8, 2023Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
