Never Forgotten Korean War POW Act

Never Forgotten Korean War POW Act

This bill provides for recognition of the entire period spent in a captured or missing-in-action status during the Korean War for purposes of receipt of combat pay.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2555 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2555

To amend the Combat Duty Pay Act of 1952 to require that former members 
  of the uniformed services who were captured or entered a missing-in-
  action status during the Korean War while serving as a member of a 
   combat unit in Korea receive combat pay for each month spent in a 
captured or missing-in-action status, rather than just a total of four 
                                months.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 7, 2019

Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York (for himself, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. 
Crawford, and Mrs. Lee of Nevada) introduced the following bill; which 
            was referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Combat Duty Pay Act of 1952 to require that former members 
  of the uniformed services who were captured or entered a missing-in-
  action status during the Korean War while serving as a member of a 
   combat unit in Korea receive combat pay for each month spent in a 
captured or missing-in-action status, rather than just a total of four 
                                months.

    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 ``Never Forgotten Korean War POW 
Act''.

SEC. 2. RECOGNITION OF ENTIRE PERIOD SPENT IN A CAPTURED OR MISSING-IN-
              ACTION STATUS DURING THE KOREAN WAR FOR RECEIPT OF COMBAT 
              PAY.

    (a) In General.--Section 704(b) of the Combat Duty Pay Act of 1952 
(title VII of Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1953; 66 Stat. 
539) is amended by striking ``for not more than three months 
thereafter'' and inserting ``for each month thereafter''.
    (b) Application of Amendment.--
            (1) Covered persons.--Section 704(b) of the Combat Duty Pay 
        Act of 1952, as amended by subsection (a), applies only with 
        respect to a former member of the uniformed services who 
        received combat pay under such section and who is alive as of 
        the date of the enactment of this Act.
            (2) Combat pay amount.--In determining the actual amount to 
        be paid to a former member of the uniformed services covered by 
        paragraph (1), the Secretary of Defense shall increase the 
        amount determined under section 704(b) of the Combat Duty Pay 
        Act of 1952, as amended by subsection (a), using an appropriate 
        inflation adjustment.
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