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106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2000
To amend title 10, United States Code, to increase the minimum Survivor
Benefit Plan basic annuity for surviving spouses age 62 and older,
and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 27, 1999
Mr. SCARBOROUGH (for himself, Mr. WELDON of Florida, Mr. NORWOOD, Mr.
PICKERING, and Mr. SMITH of Washington) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services
A BILL
To amend title 10, United States Code, to increase the
minimum Survivor Benefit Plan basic annuity for sur-
viving spouses age 62 and older, 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 ‘‘Military Survivor Ben-
efits Improvement Act of 1999’’.
SEC. 2. COMPUTATION OF SURVIVOR BENEFITS.
(a) INCREASED BASIC ANNUITY.—(1) Subsection
(a)(1)(B)(i) of section 1451 of title 10, United States
Code, is amended by striking ‘‘35 percent of the base
amount.’’ and inserting ‘‘the product of the base amount
and the percent applicable for the month. The percent ap-
plicable for a month is 35 percent for months beginning
on or before the date of the enactment of the Military Sur-
vivor Benefits Improvement Act of 1999, 40 percent for
months beginning after such date and before October
2004, and 45 percent for months beginning after Sep-
tember 2004.’’.
(2) Subsection (a)(2)(B)(i)(I) of such section is
amended by striking ‘‘35 percent’’ and inserting ‘‘the per-
cent specified under subsection (a)(1)(B)(i) as being appli-
cable for the month’’.
(3) Subsection (c)(1)(B)(i) of such section is
amended—
(A) by striking ‘‘35 percent’’ and inserting ‘‘the
applicable percent’’; and
(B) by adding at the end the following: ‘‘The
percent applicable for a month under the preceding
sentence is the percent specified under subsection
(a)(1)(B)(i) as being applicable for the month.’’.
(4) The heading for subsection (d)(2)(A) of such sec-
tion is amended to read as follows: ‘‘COMPUTATION OF AN-
NUITY.—’’.
(b) ADJUSTED SUPPLEMENTAL ANNUITY.—Section
1457(b) of title 10, United States Code, is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘5, 10, 15, or 20 percent’’ and
inserting ‘‘the applicable percent’’; and
(2) by inserting after the first sentence the fol-
lowing: ‘‘The percent used for the computation shall
be an even multiple of 5 percent and, whatever the
percent specified in the election, may not exceed 20
percent for months beginning on or before the date
of the enactment of the Military Survivor Benefits
Improvement Act of 1999, 15 percent for months
beginning after that date and before October 2004,
and 10 percent for months beginning after Sep-
tember 2004.’’.
(c) RECOMPUTATION OF ANNUITIES.—(1) Effective
on the first day of each month referred to in paragraph
(2)—
(A) each annuity under section 1450 of title 10,
United States Code, that commenced before that
month, is computed under a provision of section
1451 of that title amended by subsection (a), and is
payable for that month shall be recomputed so as to
be equal to the amount that would be in effect if the
percent applicable for that month under that provi-
sion, as so amended, had been used for the initial
computation of the annuity; and