A bill to provide that the annual adjustment of retired pay for members of the Armed Forces under the age of 62 under the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 shall not apply to members retired for disability and to retired pay used to compute certain Survivor Benefit Plan annuities.

Provides that the reduction in the annual adjustment to the retired pay of members of the Armed Forces under the age of 62 shall not apply to the retirement pay of members retired for a physical disability and to retirement pay used to compute benefit plan annuities of survivors of deceased members.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1880 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1880

To provide that the annual adjustment of retired pay for members of the 
  Armed Forces under the age of 62 under the Bipartisan Budget Act of 
 2013 shall not apply to members retired for disability and to retired 
      pay used to compute certain Survivor Benefit Plan annuities.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 19, 2013

 Mrs. Murray (for herself, Mr. Chambliss, Mr. Isakson, and Mr. Pryor) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide that the annual adjustment of retired pay for members of the 
  Armed Forces under the age of 62 under the Bipartisan Budget Act of 
 2013 shall not apply to members retired for disability and to retired 
      pay used to compute certain Survivor Benefit Plan annuities.

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

SECTION 1. INAPPLICABILITY OF ANNUAL ADJUSTMENT OF RETIRED PAY FOR 
              MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES UNDER THE AGE OF 62 UNDER THE 
              BIPARTISAN BUDGET ACT OF 2013 TO MEMBERS RETIRED FOR 
              DISABILITY AND TO RETIRED PAY USED TO COMPUTE CERTAIN 
              SURVIVOR BENEFIT PLAN ANNUITIES.

    (a) Inapplicability.--Effective as of December 1, 2015, and 
immediately after the coming into effect of section 403 of the 
Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013, paragraph (4) of section 1401a(b) of 
title 10, United States Code, as added by section 403(a) of the 
Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013, is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A), by inserting after ``age'' the 
        following: ``(other than a member or former member retired 
        under chapter 61 of this title)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
                    ``(F) Inapplicability to amount of retired pay used 
                in computation of sbp annuity for survivors.--In the 
                computation pursuant to subsection (d) or (f) of 
                section 1448 of this title of an annuity for survivors 
                of a member or person who dies while subject to the 
                application of this paragraph, the amount of the 
                retired pay of such member or person for purposes of 
                such computation shall be the amount of retired pay 
                that would have been payable to such member or person 
                at the time of death without regard to the application 
                of this paragraph.''.
    (b) Exclusion of Budgetary Effects From PAYGO Scorecards.--
            (1) Statutory pay-as-you-go scorecards.--The budgetary 
        effects of this Act shall not be entered on either PAYGO 
        scorecard maintained pursuant to section 4(d) of the Statutory 
        Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010.
            (2) Senate paygo scorecards.--The budgetary effects of this 
        Act shall not be entered on any PAYGO scorecard maintained for 
        purposes of section 201 of S. Con. Res. 21 (110th Congress).
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