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115TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 871 

To appropriate such funds as may be necessary to ensure that members 

of the Armed Forces, including reserve components thereof, and supporting civilian and contractor personnel continue to receive pay and 

allowances for active service performed when a funding gap caused by 

the failure to enact interim or full-year appropriations for the Armed 

Forces occurs, which results in the furlough of non-emergency personnel 

and the curtailment of Government activities and services. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

APRIL 6 (legislative day, APRIL 4), 2017 

Mr. HELLER introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 

to the Committee on Appropriations 

A BILL 

To appropriate such funds as may be necessary to ensure 

that members of the Armed Forces, including reserve 

components thereof, and supporting civilian and contractor personnel continue to receive pay and allowances 

for active service performed when a funding gap caused 

by the failure to enact interim or full-year appropriations 

for the Armed Forces occurs, which results in the furlough of non-emergency personnel and the curtailment 

of Government activities and services. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Ensuring Pay for Our 

3 Military Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS TO PRO5 VIDE PAY AND ALLOWANCES FOR MEMBERS 

6 OF THE ARMED FORCES AND SUPPORTING 

7 CIVILIAN AND CONTRACTOR PERSONNEL 

8 DURING FUNDING GAP IMPACTING THE DE9 PARTMENT OF DEFENSE OR DEPARTMENT 

10 OF HOMELAND SECURITY. 

11 (a) APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS FOR MILITARY PAY

12 AND ALLOWANCES.—During a funding gap impacting the 

13 Armed Forces, the Secretary of the Treasury shall make 

14 available to the Secretary of Defense (and the Secretary 

15 of Homeland Security in the case of the Coast Guard), 

16 out of any amounts in the general fund of the Treasury 

17 not otherwise appropriated, such amounts as the Secretary 

18 of Defense (and the Secretary of Homeland Security in 

19 the case of the Coast Guard) determines to be necessary 

20 to continue to provide pay and allowances (without inter21 ruption) to the following: 

22 (1) Members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, 

23 Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, including reserve 

24 components thereof, who perform active service dur25 ing the funding gap. 


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1 (2) At the discretion of the Secretary of De2 fense, such civilian personnel of the Department of 

3 Defense who are providing support to the members 

4 of the Armed Forces described in paragraph (1) as 

5 the Secretary considers appropriate. 

6 (3) At the discretion of the Secretary of De7 fense, such personnel of contractors of the Depart8 ment of Defense who are providing direct support to 

9 the members of the Armed Forces described in para10 graph (1) as the Secretary considers appropriate. 

11 (b) FUNDING GAP DEFINED.—In this section, the 

12 term ‘‘funding gap’’ means any period of time after the 

13 beginning of a fiscal year for which interim or full-year 

14 appropriations for the personnel accounts of the Armed 

15 Forces for that fiscal year have not been enacted. 

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