I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3352 
To amend the Honoring the Families of Fallen Soldiers Act to provide 
a permanent appropriation of funds for the payment of death gratuities 
and related benefits for survivors of deceased military service members 
in event of any future period of lapsed appropriations. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 28, 2013 
Mr. CONNOLLY (for himself and Mr. ROONEY) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations 
A BILL 
To amend the Honoring the Families of Fallen Soldiers 
Act to provide a permanent appropriation of funds for 
the payment of death gratuities and related benefits for 
survivors of deceased military service members in event 
of any future period of lapsed appropriations. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. PERMANENT APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS FOR 
PAYMENT OF DEATH GRATUITIES AND RE-
LATED BENEFITS FOR SURVIVORS OF DE-
CEASED MILITARY SERVICE MEMBERS IN 
EVENT OF A PERIOD OF LAPSED APPROPRIA-
TIONS. 
(a) APPROPRIATION.—The Department of Defense 
Survivor Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 
2014 (also known as the Honoring the Families of Fallen 
Soldiers Act; Public Law 113–44) is amended— 
(1) in the matter preceding section 101, by in-
serting after ‘‘fiscal year 2014’’ the following: ‘‘and 
subsequent fiscal years whenever there is a period of 
lapsed appropriations’’; and 
(2) in section 101, by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new subsection: 
‘‘(c)(1) During any subsequent period of lapsed ap-
propriations during a fiscal year, such amounts as may 
be necessary, at a rate for operations as provided for the 
most recent fiscal year for which an Act making appro-
priations for the Department of Defense has been enacted 
and under the authority and conditions provided in such 
Act, for ‘Operation and Maintenance’ and ‘Military Per-
sonnel’ accounts for the purpose of making the payments 
described in paragraphs (1) through (4) of subsection (a) 
during the period of lapsed appropriations. 
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‘‘(2) In paragraph (1) and section 103, the term ‘pe-
riod of lapsed appropriations’ means any period of time 
after the start of a fiscal year for which interim (other 
than pursuant to subsection (a) or paragraph (1)) or full- 
year appropriations for the accounts referred to in para-
graph (1) are not in effect.’’. 
(b) DURATION.—Section 103 of the Department of 
Defense Survivor Benefits Continuing Appropriations 
Resolution, 2014 (also known as the Honoring the Fami-
lies of Fallen Soldiers Act; Public Law 113–44) is amend-
ed to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 103. Appropriations and funds made available 
and authority granted pursuant to this joint resolution 
shall be available whenever there is a period of lapsed ap-
propriations for the duration of the period of lapsed appro-
priations.’’. 
Æ 
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