Overseas Military Pay Protection Act of 2022

Overseas Military Pay Protection Act of 2022

This bill prohibits the reduction of the cost-of-living allowance for a member of the Armed Forces assigned to a duty station located outside the United States, except in connection with a permanent change of station. The allowance may be increased at any time.

The Department of Defense (DOD) must notify Congress before modifying a table used to calculate living allowances. Additionally, DOD must brief Congress regarding the effects of this bill on living allowances.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8347 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8347

   To protect the cost-of-living allowance for a member of the Armed 
 Forces assigned to a duty station located outside the United States, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 13, 2022

  Mr. Bacon introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
   To protect the cost-of-living allowance for a member of the Armed 
 Forces assigned to a duty station located outside the United States, 
                        and for other purposes.

    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 ``Overseas Military Pay Protection Act 
of 2022''.

SEC. 2. OCONUS COST OF LIVING ALLOWANCE: ADJUSTMENTS; NOTICE TO CERTAIN 
              CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES.

    (a) Adjustments.--
            (1) Reductions: limitation.--The Secretary of Defense and 
        the Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is 
        operating may not reduce the cost-of-living allowance for a 
        member of the Armed Forces assigned to a duty station located 
        outside the United States except in connection with a permanent 
        change of station for such member.
            (2) Increases.--The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary 
        of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating may 
        increase the allowance described in paragraph (1) for a member 
        of the Armed Forces at any time.
    (b) Notice to Certain Congressional Committees.--The Secretary of 
Defense shall notify the appropriate congressional committees not less 
than 180 days before modifying a table used to calculate the living 
allowance described in subsection (a).
    (c) Briefing.--Not later than March 1, 2023, the Secretary of 
Defense shall brief the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and 
House of Representatives regarding effects of this section on the 
allowance described in subsection (a).
    (d) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.--In this section, 
the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' means the following:
            (1) The Committee on Armed Services of the Senate.
            (2) The Committees on Armed Services of the House of 
        Representatives.
            (3) The Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation 
        of the Senate.
            (4) The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of 
        the House of Representatives.
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