To amend title 10, United States Code, to eliminate the required reduction in the amount of combat-related special compensation paid to disabled combat-related uniformed services retirees retired under chapter 61 of such title whose disability is attributable to an injury for which the members were awarded the Purple Heart.

Eliminates a required reduction in the amount of combat-related special compensation paid to members of the Armed Forces retired or separated due to physical disability and receiving combat-related retirement pay when the combat-related disability is attributable to an injury for which the member was awarded the Purple Heart.

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4912 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4912

   To amend title 10, United States Code, to eliminate the required 
reduction in the amount of combat-related special compensation paid to 
   disabled combat-related uniformed services retirees retired under 
chapter 61 of such title whose disability is attributable to an injury 
          for which the members were awarded the Purple Heart.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 22, 2010

  Mrs. Halvorson (for herself, Ms. Jackson Lee of Texas, Mr. Brady of 
 Pennsylvania, and Ms. Giffords) 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 eliminate the required 
reduction in the amount of combat-related special compensation paid to 
   disabled combat-related uniformed services retirees retired under 
chapter 61 of such title whose disability is attributable to an injury 
          for which the members 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. EXCEPTION TO COMBAT-RELATED SPECIAL COMPENSATION SPECIAL 
              RULE FOR DISABLED COMBAT-RELATED UNIFORMED SERVICES 
              RETIREES WHO ARE PURPLE HEART RECIPIENTS.

    (a) Exception.--Section 1413a(b)(3) of title 10, United States 
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
                    ``(C) Exception for purple heart recipients.--The 
                reductions otherwise required by this paragraph in the 
                amount of the monthly payment under paragraph (1) for 
                an eligible combat-related disabled uniformed services 
                retiree who is retired under chapter 61 of this title 
                shall not apply if the combat-related disability of the 
                member is attributable to an injury for which the 
                member was awarded the Purple Heart.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to payments under section 1413a of title 10, United 
States Code, made for months beginning on or after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
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