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Securing Judicial Independence Act of 2003

Introduced: May 21, 2003 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
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May 21, 2003
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6864)
May 21, 2003
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6864)
May 21, 2003
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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.

What's happening now May 21, 2003

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6864)

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Republican 1