IIB 

111TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1679 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

APRIL 23, 2009 

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and 

Governmental Affairs 

AN ACT 

To provide for the replacement of lost income for employees 

of the House of Representatives who are members of 

a reserve component of the armed forces who are on 

active duty for a period of more than 30 days, and 

for other purposes. 

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 ‘‘House Reservists Pay 

3 Adjustment Act of 2009’’. 

4 SEC. 2. REPLACEMENT OF LOST INCOME FOR HOUSE EM5 PLOYEES ON ACTIVE DUTY UNDER INVOLUN6 TARY MOBILIZATION ORDER. 

7 (a) PAYMENT.— 

8 (1) IN GENERAL.—For each active duty month 

9 of an eligible employee of the House of Representa10 tives who is also a member of a reserve component 

11 of the armed forces, the Chief Administrative Officer 

12 of the House of Representatives shall pay to the em13 ployee the amount by which— 

14 (A) the amount of regular compensation 

15 the employee would have received from the 

16 House of Representatives if the month had not 

17 been an active duty month, exceeds (if at all) 

18 (B) the total monthly military compensa19 tion paid to the employee for the month by the 

20 Secretary of Defense. 

21 (2) ELIGIBILITY.—An employee of the House of 

22 Representatives is eligible for purposes of paragraph 

23 (1) with respect to an active duty month if the em24 ployee was an employee of the House of Representa25 tives during each day of the 90-day period which 


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1 ends on the day on which the employee reports for 

2 active duty under an involuntary mobilization order. 

3 (b) DETERMINATION OF COMPENSATION EMPLOYEE

4 WOULD HAVE RECEIVED.— 

5 (1) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of subsection 

6 (a)(1), the amount of regular compensation an em7 ployee would have received from the House of Rep8 resentatives for a month shall be equal to the 

9 amount of compensation the employee received from 

10 the House of Representatives for the base month 

11 (excluding any bonus or incentive payment made 

12 during the month), increased (in a compound man13 ner) by any cost-of-living adjustments applicable to 

14 the compensation of employees of the Office of the 

15 Chief Administrative Officer for months occurring 

16 after the base month. 

17 (2) BASE MONTH DEFINED.—For purposes of 

18 paragraph (1), the term ‘‘base month’’ means, with 

19 respect to an employee, the most recent month for 

20 which the employee received compensation from the 

21 House of Representatives which precedes the active 

22 duty month. 

23 (c) SPECIAL RULES REGARDING AMOUNT OF PAY24 MENT.— 


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1 (1) REDUCTION FOR AMOUNTS PAID FROM

2 OTHER SOURCES AS REPLACEMENT OF LOST IN3 COME.—The Chief Administrative Officer shall re4 duce the amount of any payment made to any indi5 vidual under subsection (a) with respect to an active 

6 duty month by the amount of any payment received 

7 by the individual under section 910 of title 37, 

8 United States Code, or any other source that is pro9 vided to replace income lost by the individual during 

10 the month. 

11 (2) MINIMUM AMOUNT REQUIRED FOR PAY12 MENT.—The Chief Administrative Officer shall not 

13 make a payment otherwise required under this sec14 tion if the amount of the payment (as determined 

15 under subsection (a), taking into account the reduc16 tion made under paragraph (1)) is not greater than 

17 $50. 

18 (d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 

19 (1) the term ‘‘active duty month’’ means, with 

20 respect to an employee of the House of Representa21 tives who is also a member of a reserve component 

22 of the armed forces, any month during which the 

23 employee is not able to perform duties for the office 

24 of the employee’s employing authority because the 


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1 employee is on active duty under an involuntary mo2 bilization order for a period of more than 30 days; 

3 (2) the terms ‘‘armed forces’’, ‘‘active duty for 

4 a period of more than 30 days’’, and ‘‘reserve com5 ponent’’ have the meaning given such terms in sec6 tion 101 of title 37, United States Code; and 

7 (3) the term ‘‘total monthly military compensa8 tion’’ has the meaning given such term in section 

9 910(e)(2) of title 37, United States Code. 

10 (e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 

11 are authorized to be appropriated from the applicable ac12 counts of the House of Representatives such sums as may 

13 be necessary for payments under this section. 

14 (f) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall apply with 

15 respect to active duty months beginning on or after the 

16 date of the enactment of this Act. 

17 SEC. 3. ENSURING CONSISTENCY WITH CODE OF OFFICIAL 

18 CONDUCT. 

19 Clause 8 of rule XXIII of the Rules of the House 

20 of Representatives is amended by adding at the end the 

21 following new paragraph: 

22 ‘‘(d) Nothing in this clause may be construed to pro23 hibit the disbursement or receipt of any payment author24 ized under section 2 of the House Reservists Pay Adjust25 ment Act of 2009.’’. 


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1 SEC. 4. CLARIFICATION OF ELIGIBILITY OF SURVIVORS 

2 FOR HOUSE GRATUITY. 

3 The last undesignated paragraph under the center 

4 heading ‘‘House of Representatives’’ and the center sub5 heading ‘‘Contingent Expenses of the House’’ in the first 

6 section of the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1955 

7 (2 U.S.C. 125), is amended by adding at the end the fol8 lowing: ‘‘Nothing in this paragraph may be construed to 

9 prohibit the Chief Administrative Officer from paying a 

10 gratuity to the widow, widower, or heirs-at-law of an em11 ployee of the House who dies during an active duty month 

12 (as defined in section 2(d) of the House Reservists Pay 

13 Adjustment Act of 2009).’’. 

Passed the House of Representatives April 22, 2009. 

Attest: LORRAINE C. MILLER, 

Clerk. 


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