To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to provide the President with the authority to exempt civilian Department of Defense personnel accounts from sequestration.

Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to authorize the President to exempt civilian employees of the Department of Defense (DOD) who served in the Armed Forces on or after August 2, 2011, from sequestration or provide for a lower uniform percentage reduction in their compensation than would otherwise apply.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2614 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2614

To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
    to provide the President with the authority to exempt civilian 
      Department of Defense personnel accounts from sequestration.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 8, 2013

Mr. Barrow of Georgia introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                     to the Committee on the Budget

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
    to provide the President with the authority to exempt civilian 
      Department of Defense personnel accounts from sequestration.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. OPTIONAL EXEMPTION OF CIVILIAN DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
              PERSONNEL WHO HAVE SERVED IN THE UNIFORM SERVICES.

    Section 255(f) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985 is amended--
            (1) in the side heading by inserting before the period at 
        the end ``and Certain Civilian Personnel of the Department of 
        Defense''; and
            (2) in paragraph (1) by adding at the end the following new 
        sentence: ``The President may also, with respect to civilian 
        employees of the Department of Defense who served in the Armed 
        Forces on or after August 2, 2011, exempt that portion of the 
        personnel account covering them from sequestration or provide 
        for a lower uniform percentage reduction than would otherwise 
        apply.''.
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