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111TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1679 

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. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 24, 2009 

Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania (for himself, Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California, Mrs. DAVIS of California, Mr. HARPER, and Mr. MCCARTHY of 

California) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on 

Standards of Official Conduct, for a period to be subsequently determined 

by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 

within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

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, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘House Reservists Pay 

5 Adjustment Act of 2009’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. REPLACEMENT OF LOST INCOME FOR HOUSE EM2 PLOYEES ON ACTIVE DUTY UNDER INVOLUN3 TARY MOBILIZATION ORDER. 

4 (a) PAYMENT.— 

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

6 of an eligible employee of the House of Representa7 tives who is also a member of a reserve component 

8 of the armed forces, the Chief Administrative Officer 

9 of the House of Representatives shall pay to the em10 ployee the amount by which— 

11 (A) the amount of regular compensation 

12 the employee would have received from the 

13 House of Representatives if the month had not 

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

15 (B) the total monthly military compensa16 tion paid to the employee for the month by the 

17 Secretary of Defense. 

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

19 Representatives is eligible for purposes of paragraph 

20 (1) with respect to an active duty month if the em21 ployee was an employee of the House of Representa22 tives during each day of the 90-day period which 

23 ends on the day on which the employee reports for 

24 active duty under an involuntary mobilization order. 

25 (b) DETERMINATION OF COMPENSATION EMPLOYEE

26 WOULD HAVE RECEIVED.— 


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

2 (a)(1), the amount of regular compensation an em3 ployee would have received from the House of Rep4 resentatives for a month shall be equal to the 

5 amount of compensation the employee received from 

6 the House of Representatives for the base month 

7 (excluding any bonus or incentive payment made 

8 during the month), increased (in a compound man9 ner) by any cost-of-living adjustments applicable to 

10 the compensation of employees of the Office of the 

11 Chief Administrative Officer for months occurring 

12 after the base month. 

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

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

15 respect to an employee, the most recent month for 

16 which the employee received compensation from the 

17 House of Representatives which precedes the active 

18 duty month. 

19 (c) SPECIAL RULES REGARDING AMOUNT OF PAY20 MENT.— 

21 (1) REDUCTION FOR AMOUNTS PAID FROM

22 OTHER SOURCES AS REPLACEMENT OF LOST IN23 COME.—The Chief Administrative Officer shall re24 duce the amount of any payment made to any indi25 vidual under subsection (a) with respect to an active 


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1 duty month by the amount of any payment received 

2 by the individual under section 910 of title 37, 

3 United States Code, or any other source that is pro4 vided to replace income lost by the individual during 

5 the month. 

6 (2) MINIMUM AMOUNT REQUIRED FOR PAY7 MENT.—The Chief Administrative Officer shall not 

8 make a payment otherwise required under this sec9 tion if the amount of the payment (as determined 

10 under subsection (a), taking into account the reduc11 tion made under paragraph (1)) is not greater than 

12 $50. 

13 (d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 

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

15 respect to an employee of the House of Representa16 tives who is also a member of a reserve component 

17 of the armed forces, any month during which the 

18 employee is not able to perform duties for the office 

19 of the employee’s employing authority because the 

20 employee is on active duty under an involuntary mo21 bilization order for a period of more than 30 days; 

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

23 a period of more than 30 days’’, and ‘‘reserve com24 ponent’’ have the meaning given such terms in sec25 tion 101 of title 37, United States Code; and 


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1 (3) the term ‘‘total monthly military compensa2 tion’’ has the meaning given such term in section 

3 910(e)(2) of title 37, United States Code. 

4 (e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 

5 are authorized to be appropriated from the applicable ac6 counts of the House of Representatives such sums as may 

7 be necessary for payments under this section. 

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

9 respect to active duty months beginning on or after the 

10 date of the enactment of this Act. 

11 SEC. 3. ENSURING CONSISTENCY WITH CODE OF OFFICIAL 

12 CONDUCT. 

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

14 of Representatives is amended by adding at the end the 

15 following new paragraph: 

16 ‘‘(d) Nothing in this clause may be construed to pro17 hibit the disbursement or receipt of any payment author18 ized under section 2 of the House Reservists Pay Adjust19 ment Act of 2009.’’. 

20 SEC. 4. CLARIFICATION OF ELIGIBILITY OF SURVIVORS 

21 FOR HOUSE GRATUITY. 

22 The last undesignated paragraph under the center 

23 heading ‘‘House of Representatives’’ and the center sub24 heading ‘‘Contingent Expenses of the House’’ in the first 

25 section of the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1955 


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1 (2 U.S.C. 125), is amended by adding at the end the fol2 lowing: ‘‘Nothing in this paragraph may be construed to 

3 prohibit the Chief Administrative Officer from paying a 

4 gratuity to the widow, widower, or heirs-at-law of an em5 ployee of the House who dies during an active duty month 

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

7 Adjustment Act of 2009).’’. 

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