I 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4274 
To amend the Honoring the Families of Fallen Soldiers Act to provide 
a permanent appropriation of funds for the payment of death gratuities 
for survivors of deceased members of the uniformed services in event 
of any future period of lapsed appropriations. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 18, 2014 
Mr. BARBER 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 for survivors of deceased 
members of the uniformed services 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 FOR SUR-
VIVORS OF MEMBERS OF THE UNIFORMED 
SERVICES IN EVENT OF A PERIOD OF LAPSED 
APPROPRIATIONS. 
(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; 127 Stat. 555) is 
amended— 
(1) in the matter preceding section 101— 
(A) by striking ‘‘of the Department of De-
fense’’; and 
(B) by inserting after ‘‘fiscal year 2014’’ 
the following: ‘‘and, as provided in section 
101(c), 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 uniformed services (as defined in section 
101(5) of title 37, United States Code) has been enacted 
and under the authority and conditions provided in such 
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Act, for the accounts from which death gratuities are paid 
under sections 1475–1477 and 1489 of title 10, United 
States Code, for the purpose of making such death gra-
tuity payments for survivors of deceased members of the 
uniformed services during the period of lapsed appropria-
tions. 
‘‘(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 section 101(c) of this 
joint resolution shall be available whenever there is a pe-
riod of lapsed appropriations for the duration of the period 
of lapsed appropriations.’’. 
Æ 
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