Fair Pay for America's Troops Act - Prohibits the suspension of military active-duty deployment limits by the President for national security purposes from being used to deny the payment of a high-deployment allowance to a member of the Armed Forces if the member is otherwise qualified. Sets such such allowance at $1,000 per month. (Current law allows an amount at the discretion of the Secretary of the military department concerned, not to exceed $1,000.) Repeals the authority to exclude from eligibility for such allowance specified duty assignments approved by the Secretary of Defense.
Allows for the payment of such allowance in the case of excess active-duty rotation frequencies for reserve personnel.
[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3381 Introduced in House (IH)]
110th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 3381
To terminate the national security waiver that has been used to deny
the payment of the high-deployment allowance to members of the Armed
Forces serving lengthy or numerous deployments since September 11,
2001, and to extend the allowance to members who have been deployed
since that date in excess of the rotation frequencies for reserve
component members of one year mobilized to five years demobilized and
for regular component members of one year deployed to two years at the
permanent duty station, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
August 3, 2007
Mr. Braley of Iowa introduced the following bill; which was referred to
the Committee on Armed Services
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A BILL
To terminate the national security waiver that has been used to deny
the payment of the high-deployment allowance to members of the Armed
Forces serving lengthy or numerous deployments since September 11,
2001, and to extend the allowance to members who have been deployed
since that date in excess of the rotation frequencies for reserve
component members of one year mobilized to five years demobilized and
for regular component members of one year deployed to two years at the
permanent duty station, and for other purposes.
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 ``Fair Pay for America's Troops Act''.
SEC. 2. ACTIVATION OF HIGH-DEPLOYMENT ALLOWANCE FOR MEMBERS OF THE
ARMED FORCES AND EXPANSION OF ALLOWANCE TO COVER
DEPLOYMENTS IN EXCESS OF ROTATION FREQUENCIES.
(a) Termination of National Security Waiver.--Subsection (f) of
section 436 of title 37, United States Code, is amended to read as
follows:
``(f) Inapplicability of National Security Waiver.--The fact that
the applicability of section 991 of title 10 to a member is suspended
under subsection (d) of that section may not be used to deny the
payment of a high-deployment allowance to the member if the member
otherwise satisfies the eligibility requirements of subsection (a).''.
(b) Removal of Discretion Regarding Rate of Allowance.--Subsection
(c) of such section is amended by striking ``determined by the
Secretary concerned, not to exceed $1,000 per month'' and inserting
``equal to $1,000 per month''.
(c) Repeal of Authority to Exclude Certain Duty Assignments.--Such
section is further amended--
(1) by striking subsection (g); and
(2) by redesignating subsection (h) as subsection (g).
(d) Violation of Rotation Frequencies.--Subsection (a)(2) of such
section is amended--
(1) by striking ``or'' at the end of subparagraph (B);
(2) in subparagraph (C)--
(A) by striking ``or'' at the end of clause (i);
(B) by striking the period at the end of clause
(ii) and inserting ``; or''; and
(C) by adding at the end the following new clause:
``(iii) under a call or order to active
duty for a period of more than 30 days that
results in the member serving on active duty in
excess of the rotation frequency for reserve
component members of one year mobilized to five
years demobilized; or''; and
(3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
``(D) in the case of a member of a regular
component, is otherwise deployed in excess of the
rotation frequency for regular component members of one
year deployed to two years assigned to duty at the
permanent duty station of the member.''.
(e) Retroactive Application.--
(1) Effective date.--Except as provided in paragraph (2),
the amendments made by this section shall take effect on the
first day of the first month beginning more than 20 days after
the date of the enactment of this Act. Service performed by
members of the Armed Forces before the effective date shall be
counted for purposes of determining the eligibility of members
for the high-deployment allowance under section 436 of title
37, United States Code, as amended by this section, on and
after that date.
(2) Retroactive application.--On the basis of the
information maintained pursuant to section 991 of title 10,
United States Code, regarding members of the Armed Forces
deployed since September 11, 2001, the Secretary of each
military department shall pay a high-deployment allowance under
section 436 of title 37, United States Code, as amended by this
section, to each member of the Armed Forces for each month
since that date through the effective date specified in
paragraph (1) during which the member satisfied the eligibility
requirements for the allowance under subsection (a) of such
section 436. In the case of a member who is deceased as of the
effective date specified in paragraph (1), the high-deployment
allowance shall be paid to the next-of-kin of the member.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
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