active duty for a period of more than 30 days, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘House Reservists Pay 
Adjustment Act of 2008’’. 
SEC. 2. REPLACEMENT OF LOST INCOME FOR HOUSE EM-
PLOYEES ON ACTIVE DUTY UNDER INVOLUN-
TARY MOBILIZATION ORDER. 
(a) PAYMENT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—For each active duty month 
of an eligible employee of the House of Representa-
tives who is also a member of a Reserve component 
of the Armed Forces, the Chief Administrative Offi-
cer of the House of Representatives shall pay to the 
employee the amount by which— 
(A) the amount of regular compensation 
the employee would have received from the 
House of Representatives if the month had not 
been an active duty month, exceeds (if at all) 
(B) the total monthly military compensa-
tion paid to the employee for the month by the 
Secretary of Defense. 
(2) ELIGIBILITY.—An employee of the House of 
Representatives is eligible for purposes of paragraph 
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(1) with respect to an active duty month if the em-
ployee was an employee of the House of Representa-
tives during each day of the 90-day period which 
ends on the day on which the employee reports for 
active duty under an involuntary mobilization order. 
(b) DETERMINATION OF COMPENSATION EMPLOYEE 
WOULD HAVE RECEIVED.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of subsection 
(a)(1), the amount of regular compensation an em-
ployee would have received from the House of Rep-
resentatives for a month shall be equal to the 
amount of compensation the employee received from 
the House of Representatives for the base month 
(excluding any bonus or incentive payment made 
during the month), increased (in a compound man-
ner) by any cost-of-living adjustments applicable to 
the compensation of employees of the Office of the 
Chief Administrative Officer for months occurring 
after the base month. 
(2) BASE MONTH DEFINED.—For purposes of 
paragraph (1), the term ‘‘base month’’ means, with 
respect to an employee, the most recent month for 
which the employee received compensation from the 
House of Representatives which precedes the active 
duty month. 
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(c) SPECIAL RULES REGARDING AMOUNT OF PAY-
MENT.— 
(1) REDUCTION
FOR
AMOUNTS
PAID
FROM 
OTHER
SOURCES
AS
REPLACEMENT
OF
LOST
IN-
COME.—The Chief Administrative Officer shall re-
duce the amount of any payment made to any indi-
vidual under subsection (a) with respect to an active 
duty month by the amount of any payment received 
by the individual under section 910 of title 37, 
United States Code, or any other source that is pro-
vided to replace income lost by the individual during 
the month. 
(2) MINIMUM
AMOUNT
REQUIRED
FOR
PAY-
MENT.—The Chief Administrative Officer shall not 
make a payment otherwise required under this sec-
tion if the amount of the payment (as determined 
under subsection (a), taking into account the reduc-
tion made under paragraph (1)) is not greater than 
$50. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 
(1) the term ‘‘active duty month’’ means, with 
respect to an employee of the House of Representa-
tives who is also a member of a Reserve component 
of the Armed Forces, any month during which the 
employee is not able to perform duties for the office 
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of the employee’s employing authority because the 
employee is on active duty under an involuntary mo-
bilization order for a period of more than 30 days; 
(2) the terms ‘‘Armed Forces’’, ‘‘active duty for 
a period of more than 30 days’’, and ‘‘Reserve com-
ponent’’ have the meaning given such terms in sec-
tion 101 of title 37, United States Code; and 
(3) the term ‘‘total monthly military compensa-
tion’’ has the meaning given such term in section 
910(e)(2) of title 37, United States Code. 
(e) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated from the applicable ac-
counts of the House of Representatives such sums as may 
be necessary for payments under this section. 
(f) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall apply with 
respect to active duty months beginning on or after the 
date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 3. ENSURING CONSISTENCY WITH CODE OF OFFICIAL 
CONDUCT. 
Clause 8 of rule XXIII of the Rules of the House 
of Representatives is amended by adding at the end the 
following new paragraph: 
‘‘(d) Nothing in this clause may be construed to pro-
hibit the disbursement or receipt of any payment author-
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ized under section 2 of the House Reservists Pay Adjust-
ment Act of 2008.’’. 
SEC. 4. CLARIFICATION OF ELIGIBILITY OF SURVIVORS 
FOR HOUSE GRATUITY. 
The last undesignated paragraph under the center 
heading ‘‘House of Representatives’’ and the center sub-
heading ‘‘Contingent Expenses of the House’’ in the first 
section of the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1955 
(2 U.S.C. 125), is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: ‘‘Nothing in this paragraph may be construed to 
prohibit the Chief Administrative Officer from paying a 
gratuity to the widow, widower, or heirs-at-law of an em-
ployee of the House who dies during an active duty month 
(as defined in section 2(d) of the House Reservists Pay 
Adjustment Act of 2008).’’. 
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