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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · May 21, 2003
Securing Judicial Independence Act of 2003 - Increases Federal judicial salaries by 25 percent.
Repeals provisions: (1) authorizing annual judicial salary adjustments equal to the most recent change in the Employment Cost Index; (2) prohibiting the years of military service for which credit is allowed for the purposes of retirement or retired pay under any other provision of law from being included as allowable years of service for purposes of the computation of the annuities for survivors of Federal judicial officials; or (3) the service used in the computation of Federal judicial official survivor annuities from also be credited in computing any other survivor annuity.
Increases the notification period for survivor annuity coverage for a judge of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
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Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV] · D–NV
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6864)
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6864)
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