I 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6072 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to include the Coast Guard in 
the Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 4, 2020 
Mr. CRIST (for himself and Mr. PALAZZO) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Armed Services 
A BILL 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to include the Coast 
Guard in the Department of Defense Military Retirement 
Fund, 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 ‘‘Coast Guard Retire-
ment Parity Act’’. 
SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT AND PURPOSE OF FUND; DEFINI-
TION. 
Section 1461(a) of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended by inserting ‘‘and the Coast Guard’’ after ‘‘liabil-
ities of the Department of Defense’’. 
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SEC. 3. PAYMENTS FROM THE FUND. 
Section 1463(a) of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘and Marine 
Corps’’ and inserting ‘‘Marine Corps, and Coast 
Guard’’; 
(2) in paragraph (2) by striking ‘‘(other than 
retired pay payable by the Secretary of Homeland 
Security)’’; and 
(3) in paragraph (4) by inserting ‘‘and the De-
partment of Homeland Security that’’ after ‘‘De-
partment of Defense’’. 
SEC. 4. DETERMINATION OF CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE 
FUND. 
Section 1465 of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘(a) NOT’’ and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(a)(1) Not’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) Not later than October 1, 2022, the Board of 
Actuaries shall determine the amount that is the present 
value (as of September 30, 2022) of future benefits pay-
able from the Fund that are attributable to service in the 
Coast Guard performed before October 1, 2022. That 
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amount is the original Coast Guard unfunded liability of 
the Fund. The Board shall determine the period of time 
over which the original Coast Guard unfunded liability 
should be liquidated and shall determine an amortization 
schedule for the liquidation of such liability over that pe-
riod. Contributions to the Fund for the liquidation of the 
original Coast Guard unfunded liability in accordance with 
such schedule shall be made as provided in section 1466(b) 
of this title.’’; 
(2) in subsection (b)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) in the matter preceding subpara-
graph (A)— 
(I) by inserting ‘‘, in consultation 
with the Secretary of the department 
in which the Coast Guard is oper-
ating,’’ after ‘‘Secretary of Defense’’; 
and 
(II) by inserting ‘‘and Coast 
Guard’’ after ‘‘Department of De-
fense’’; 
(ii) in subparagraph (A)(ii) by strik-
ing ‘‘(other than the Coast Guard)’’ and 
inserting ‘‘members of the Armed Forces’’; 
and 
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