Directs the Secretary of Defense to prescribe regulations to provide the following persons with transportation on Department of Defense (DOD) aircraft on a space-available basis under the same terms and conditions that apply to members of the armed forces entitled to retired pay: (1) members of the Selected Reserve in good standing; (2) a former reserve member under 60 years of age who would be eligible for retired pay except for being under such age; and (3) dependents of the above. Limits the required identification for such travel.
Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations authorizing a reserve member traveling to inactive duty training at least 50 miles from home to be eligible for billeting (housing) in DOD facilities on the same basis as active-duty personnel traveling under orders away from such member's duty station. Requires proof of the reason for such travel.
Increases the maximum number of reserve retirement points that may be credited in a year for reserve service from 75 to 90 for years during and subsequent to the date of enactment of the Reserve Component Equity Act of 1999.
Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to provide civil legal services to reserve personnel (and their dependents) not otherwise entitled to such services following a release from active duty under a call or order to such duty for more than 30 days under a mobilization authority, but only for a period that is not in excess of twice the length of the duty period served.
[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2514 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
106th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. 2514
To improve benefits for members of the reserve components of the Armed
Forces and their dependents.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
May 4, 2000
Mr. Grams (for himself, Mr. Sessions, and Mr. Allard) introduced the
following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on
Armed Services
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A BILL
To improve benefits for members of the reserve components of the Armed
Forces and their dependents.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Fairness for the Military Reserve
Act of 2000''.
SEC. 2. TRAVEL BY RESERVES ON MILITARY AIRCRAFT OUTSIDE CONTINENTAL
UNITED STATES.
(a) Space-Required Travel for Travel to Duty Stations OCONUS.--(1)
Subsection (a) of section 18505 of title 10, United States Code, is
amended--
(A) by inserting ``annual training duty or'' before
``inactive-duty training'' both places it appears; and
(B) by inserting ``duty or'' before ``training if''.
(2) The heading of such section is amended to read as follows:
``Sec. 18505. Space-required travel: Reserves traveling to annual
training duty or inactive-duty training OCONUS''.
(b) Space-Available Travel for Members of Selected Reserve and Gray
Area Retirees.--(1) Chapter 1805 of such title is amended by adding at
the end the following new section:
``Sec. 18506. Space-available travel: Selected Reserve members and
reserve retirees under age 60; dependents
``(a) Eligibility for Space-Available Travel.--The Secretary of
Defense shall prescribe regulations to provide persons described in
subsection (b) with transportation on aircraft of the Department of
Defense on a space-available basis under the same terms and conditions
(including terms and conditions applicable to travel outside the United
States) as apply to members and former members of the armed forces
entitled to retired pay.
``(b) Eligible Persons.--Subsection (a) applies to the following
persons:
``(1) A person who is a member of the Selected Reserve in
good standing (as determined by the Secretary concerned).
``(2) A person who is a member or former member of a
reserve component under age 60 who, but for age, would be
entitled to retired pay under chapter 1223 of this title.
``(c) Dependents.--A dependent of a person described in subsection
(b) shall be provided transportation under this section on the same
basis as dependents of members and former members of the armed forces
entitled to retired pay.
``(d) Limitation on Required Identification.--Neither the
`Authentication of Reserve Status for Travel Eligibility' form (DD Form
1853) nor any other form, other military identification and duty orders
or other forms of identification required of active duty personnel, may
be required to be presented by persons requesting space-available
transportation within or outside the continental United States under
this section.
``(e) Dependent Defined.--In this section, the term `dependent' has
the meanings given that term in subparagraphs (A), (B), (C), (D), and
(I) of section 1074(2) of this title.''.
(2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is
amended by striking the item relating to section 18505 and inserting
the following:
``18505. Space-required travel: Reserves traveling to annual training
duty or inactive-duty training OCONUS.
``18506. Space-available travel: Selected Reserve members and reserve
retirees under age 60; dependents.''.
(c) Effective Date.--The regulations required under section 18506
of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (b), shall be
prescribed not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of
this Act.
SEC. 3. BILLETING SERVICES FOR RESERVE MEMBERS TRAVELING FOR INACTIVE
DUTY TRAINING.
(a) In General.--(1) Chapter 1217 of title 10, United States Code,
is amended by inserting after section 12603 the following new section:
``Sec. 12604. Billeting in Department of Defense facilities: Reserves
attending inactive-duty training
``(a) Authority for Billeting on Same Basis as Active Duty Members
Traveling Under Orders.--The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe
regulations authorizing a Reserve traveling to inactive-duty training
at a location more than 50 miles from that Reserve's residence to be
eligible for billeting in Department of Defense facilities on the same
basis and to the same extent as a member of the armed forces on active
duty who is traveling under orders away from the member's permanent
duty station.
``(b) Proof of Reason for Travel.--The Secretary shall include in
the regulations the means for confirming a Reserve's eligibility for
billeting under subsection (a).''.
(2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is
amended by inserting after the item relating to section 12603 the
following new item:
``12604. Billeting in Department of Defense facilities: Reserves
attending inactive-duty training.
(b) Effective Date.--Section 12604 of title 10, United States Code,
as added by subsection (a), shall apply with respect to periods of
inactive-duty training beginning more than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act.
SEC. 4. INCREASE IN MAXIMUM NUMBER OF RESERVE RETIREMENT POINTS THAT
MAY BE CREDITED IN ANY YEAR.
Section 12733(3) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by
striking ``but not more than'' and all that follows and inserting ``but
not more than--
``(A) 60 days in any one year of service before the
year of service that includes September 23, 1996;
``(B) 75 days in the year of service that includes
September 23, 1996, and in any subsequent year of
service before the year of service that includes the
date of the enactment of the Reserve Components Equity
Act of 2000; and
``(C) 90 days in the year of service that includes
the date of the enactment of the Reserve Components
Equity Act of 2000 and in any subsequent year of
service.''.
SEC. 5. AUTHORITY FOR PROVISION OF LEGAL SERVICES TO RESERVE COMPONENT
MEMBERS FOLLOWING RELEASE FROM ACTIVE DUTY.
(a) Legal Services.--Section 1044(a) of title 10, United States
Code, is amended--
(1) by redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph (5); and
(2) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following new
paragraph (4):
``(4) Members of reserve components of the armed forces not
covered by paragraph (1) or (2) following release from active
duty under a call or order to active duty for more than 30 days
issued under a mobilization authority (as determined by the
Secretary of Defense), but only during the period that begins
on the date of the release and is equal to twice the length of
the period served on active duty under such call or order to
active duty.''.
(b) Dependents.--Paragraph (5) of such section, as redesignated by
subsection (a)(1), is amended by striking ``and (3)'' and inserting
``(3), and (4)''.
(c) Implementing Regulations.--Regulations to implement the
amendments made by this section shall be prescribed not later than 180
days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3538)
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