Combat Military Medically Retired Veteran's Fairness Act

Combat Military Medically Retired Veteran's Fairness Act - Authorizes the payment of special compensation to members of the Armed Forces retired due to disability with less than 20 years of active service who were awarded the Purple Heart. States that such payments shall be made without regard to special rules applicable to other disability retirees which require offsetting reductions.

[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office]
[H.R. 243 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 243

 To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for the payment of 
  Combat-Related Special Compensation to members of the Armed Forces 
   retired for disability with less than 20 years of active military 
               service who were awarded the Purple Heart.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 5, 2007

    Mr. Weller of Illinois introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for the payment of 
  Combat-Related Special Compensation to members of the Armed Forces 
   retired for disability with less than 20 years of active military 
               service who were awarded the Purple Heart.

    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 ``Combat Military Medically Retired 
Veteran's Fairness Act''.

SEC. 2. EXCEPTION TO 20-YEAR SERVICE REQUIREMENT FOR MEMBERS AWARDED 
              THE PURPLE HEART.

    (a) Entitlement.--Section 1413a of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (c), by inserting ``Generally'' after 
        ``Retirees'';
            (2) by redesignating subsections (d) through (i) as 
        subsections (e) through (j), respectively; and
            (3) by inserting after subsection (c) the following new 
        subsection (d):
    ``(d) Exception to 20-Year Service Requirement for Purple Heart 
Recipients.--In addition to members described in subsection (c), a 
member of the uniformed services retired under chapter 61 of this title 
with less than 20 years of service creditable under section 1405 of 
this title is an eligible combat-related uniformed services retiree for 
the purposes of subsection (a) if the member has a combat-related 
disability that is attributable to an injury for which the member was 
awarded the Purple Heart. The determination under subsection (b) of the 
amount of compensation to be paid to such a member shall be made 
without regard to paragraph (3) of such subsection.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--Subsection (d) of section 1413a of title 10, 
United States Code, as added by subsection (a)(3), shall apply with 
respect to payments of compensation under such section for months 
beginning on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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