Bill > S667

Introduced Session

Reserve Component Benefits Parity Act This bill makes reserve component members who are deployed to support pre-planned operations of a combatant command eligible for: (1) pre-mobilization health care, (2) transitional health care, (3) consideration of active duty service to reduce the age for retired pay, (4) the high-deployment allowance for lengthy or numerous deployments and frequent mobilizations, (5) Post-9/11 educational assistance, and (6) non-reduction in pay while serving in the uniformed services or National Guard. The bill makes reserve component members who are deployed in response to a major disaster or emergency eligible for Post-9/11 educational assistance. The bill makes all such reserve component members eligible for extension of the time limitation during deployment with respect to training and rehabilitation assistance for veterans with service-connected disabilities. This bill shall apply to any order issued on or after January 1, 2012, for a reserve component member to serve on active duty in support of a pre-planned operation of a combatant command or in response to a major disaster or emergency.

Committee Categories

Al Franken (D)*,  Tammy Baldwin (D),  Cory Booker (D),  Shelley Moore Capito (R),  John Cornyn (R),  Heidi Heitkamp (D),  John Hoeven (R),  Amy Klobuchar (D),  Joe Manchin (I),  Claire McCaskill (D),  Elizabeth Warren (D), 

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (on 03/15/2017)

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