Armed Forces Pay Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3079 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3079

Making continuing appropriations for military pay and pay for civilian 
  employees of certain elements of the intelligence community in the 
        event of a Government shutdown, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 30, 2025

Mr. Coons (for himself, Mr. Schumer, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Reed, Mr. Schatz, 
 Ms. Rosen, Mr. Blumenthal, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Lujan, Mr. 
  Heinrich, Mr. Welch, Mr. Padilla, Mr. Kelly, Mr. Hickenlooper, Mr. 
  Merkley, Mr. Bennet, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Durbin, Ms. 
 Hirono, Ms. Duckworth, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Gallego, Ms. Cortez Masto, 
  Ms. Blunt Rochester, and Mr. Warner) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations

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                                 A BILL


 
Making continuing appropriations for military pay and pay for civilian 
  employees of certain elements of the intelligence community in the 
        event of a Government shutdown, 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 ``Armed Forces Pay Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS FOR MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES AND 
              CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES OF CERTAIN ELEMENTS OF THE 
              INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY.

    (a) In General.--There are hereby appropriated for fiscal year 
2026, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for 
any period during which interim or full-year appropriations for fiscal 
year 2026 are not in effect--
            (1) such sums as are necessary to provide pay and 
        allowances to members of the Armed Forces (as defined in 
        section 101(a)(4) of title 10, United States Code), including 
        members of reserve components who perform active service or 
        inactive-duty training during such period; and
            (2) such sums as are necessary to provide pay and 
        allowances to civilian employees of the Department of Defense, 
        the Coast Guard, the Office of the Director of National 
        Intelligence, and the Central Intelligence Agency.
    (b) Definitions.--In this section, the terms ``active service'' and 
``inactive-duty training'' have the meanings given those terms in 
section 101(d) of title 10, United States Code.

SEC. 3. TERMINATION.

    Appropriations and funds made available and authority granted 
pursuant to this Act shall be available until whichever of the 
following first occurs:
            (1) The enactment into law of an appropriation (including a 
        continuing appropriation) for any purpose for which amounts are 
        made available in section 2.
            (2) The enactment into law of the applicable regular or 
        continuing appropriations resolution or other Act without any 
        appropriation for such purpose.
            (3) September 30, 2026.

SEC. 4. TREATMENT OF APPROPRIATED FUNDS.

    Funds appropriated by this Act, or made available by the transfer 
of funds in this Act, for intelligence activities and intelligence-
related activities are deemed to be specifically authorized by the 
Congress for purposes of section 504 of the National Security Act of 
1947 (50 U.S.C. 3094) during fiscal year 2026 until the enactment of 
the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026.
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