S. 871 · 115th Congress
Ensuring Pay for Our Military Act
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This bill provides appropriations for military pay and allowances during a funding gap impacting the Armed Forces.
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in Senate · Apr 6, 2017
Ensuring Pay for Our Military Act
This bill provides appropriations for military pay and allowances during a funding gap impacting the Armed Forces.
Under the bill, a "funding gap" is any period of time after the beginning of a fiscal year for which interim or full-year appropriations for the personnel accounts of the Armed Forces for that fiscal year have not been enacted.
If a funding gap occurs, the bill provides appropriations for the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Homeland Security (in the case of the Coast Guard) to continue to provide pay and allowances (without interruption) to:
- members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, including reserve components, who perform active service during the funding gap;
- at the discretion of DOD, civilian DOD personnel who are providing support to the members of the Armed Forces who perform active service during the funding gap; and
- at the discretion of DOD, personnel of DOD contractors who are providing direct support to the members of the Armed Forces who perform active service during the funding gap.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: Ensuring Pay for Our Military Act
Latest action (Apr 6, 2017): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security · Origin: Senate · Introduced: Apr 6, 2017
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.