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Version 00 · Introduced in House · Jun 26, 1997
Requires, notwithstanding any other provision of law, that the Consumer Price Index for Government Use (CPI-G) established under this Act be used to determine the amount of any cost-of-living or similar adjustment under the Internal Revenue Code and any payment listed in this Act that is otherwise subject to an adjustment using a price index that includes prices of tobacco products or distilled spirits or both. Includes in that payment list: (1) Social Security Act benefits; (2) retirement benefits for former U.S. employees or former U.S. armed forces members; (3) payments on account of the death or disability of any current or former U.S. employee; and (4) tier 1 railroad retirement benefits. Requires that the CPI-G be based on the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, but requires it to exclude tobacco product and distilled spirit prices.
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Rep. Smith, Nick [R-MI-7] · R–MI
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
Referred to House Government Reform
Referred to House National Security
Referred to House Education and the Workforce
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, National Security, Government Reform and Oversight, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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.
Referred to House Ways and Means
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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