Citizen Soldier Equality Act of 2012

Citizen Soldier Equality Act of 2012 - Requires that, in the case of a member of the reserves who is retired or placed on the temporary disability retired list because of an incurred disability for which the member is awarded the Purple Heart, the member shall be credited with the number of years of service that would be counted under the computation of years of service for retired pay for non-regular service.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4177 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4177

   To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide equity between 
   regular and reserve component members of the Armed Forces in the 
  computation of disability retired pay for members wounded in action.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 8, 2012

  Mr. Schilling (for himself, Mr. Altmire, and Mr. Davis of Kentucky) 
 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 equity between 
   regular and reserve component members of the Armed Forces in the 
  computation of disability retired pay for members wounded in action.

    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 ``Citizen Soldier Equality Act of 
2012''.

SEC. 2. EQUITY IN COMPUTATION OF DISABILITY RETIRED PAY FOR RESERVE 
              COMPONENT MEMBERS WOUNDED IN ACTION.

    Section 1208(b) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following new sentence: ``However, in the case of 
such a member who is retired under this chapter, or whose name is 
placed on the temporary disability retired list under this chapter, 
because of a disability incurred after the date of the enactment of 
this sentence for which the member is awarded the Purple Heart, the 
member shall be credited, for the purposes of this chapter, with the 
number of years of service that would be counted if computing the 
member's years of service under section 12732 of this title.''.
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