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[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3217 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3217

To ensure the pay and allowances of members of the Armed Forces in the 
 event that the debt limit is reached or during a funding gap, and for 
                            other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 28, 2013

 Mr. Lamborn introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Armed 
  Services and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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

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                                 A BILL

 
To ensure the pay and allowances of members of the Armed Forces in the 
 event that the debt limit is reached or during a funding gap, and for 
                            other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Military Pay Act''.

SEC. 2. PAY AND ALLOWANCES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY PERSONNEL IF THE DEBT 
              CEILING IS REACHED.

    In the event that the debt of the United States Government, as 
defined in section 3101 of title 31, United States Code, reaches the 
statutory limit, the Secretary of the Treasury shall make available the 
following amounts:
            (1) Such amounts as the Secretary of Defense (and the 
        Secretary of Homeland Security in the case of the Coast Guard) 
        determines to be necessary 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 thereof, as well as civilian employees of the 
        Department of Defense (and the Department of Homeland Security 
        in the case of the Coast Guard) and designated contractors.
            (2) Such amounts as the President certifies to Congress as 
        are necessary to carry out vital national security priorities 
        of the United States.

SEC. 3. EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS FOR DEFENSE AND NATIONAL 
              SECURITY DURING A FUNDING GAP.

    (a) In General.--During any funding gap, the Secretary of the 
Treasury shall make available, out of any amounts in the general fund 
of the Treasury not otherwise appropriated--
            (1) such amounts as the Secretary of Defense (and the 
        Secretary of Homeland Security in the case of the Coast Guard) 
        determines to be necessary 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 thereof, as well as civilian employees of the 
        Department of Defense (and the Department of Homeland Security 
        in the case of the Coast Guard) and designated contractors; and
            (2) such amounts as the President certifies to the Congress 
        are necessary to carry out vital national security priorities.
    (b) Funding Gap Defined.--For purposes of this section and with 
respect to an obligation incurred by the Government of the United 
States, the term ``funding gap'' means any period of time after the 
beginning of a fiscal year for which interim or full-year 
appropriations for such obligation have not been enacted.
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