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108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2398
To amend title 10, United States Code, to revise the age and service 
requirements for eligibility to receive retired pay for non-regular service. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 10, 2003
Mr. BARRETT of South Carolina (for himself and Mr. WILSON of South Caro-
lina) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Armed Services 
A BILL 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to revise the age 
and service requirements for eligibility to receive retired 
pay for non-regular service.
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 ‘‘Guardsmen and Re-
servist Retirement Age Act of 2003’’.
SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITY FOR RETIRED PAY FOR NON-REGULAR 
SERVICE. 
(a) AGE AND SERVICE REQUIREMENTS.—Subsection 
(a) of section 12731 of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(a)(1) Except as provided in subsection (c), a person 
is entitled, upon application, to retired pay computed 
under section 12739 of this title, if the person—
‘‘(A) satisfies one of the combinations of re-
quirements for minimum age and minimum number 
of years of service (computed under section 12732 of 
this title) that are specified in the table in para-
graph (2); 
‘‘(B) performed the last six years of qualifying 
service while a member of any category named in 
section 12732(a)(1) of this title, but not while a 
member of a regular component, the Fleet Reserve, 
or the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve, except that in 
the case of a person who completed 20 years of serv-
ice computed under section 12732 of this title before 
October 5, 1994, the number of years of qualifying 
service under this subparagraph shall be eight; and 
‘‘(C) is not entitled, under any other provision 
of law, to retired pay from an armed force or re-
tainer pay as a member of the Fleet Reserve or the 
Fleet Marine Corps Reserve.
‘‘(2) The combinations of minimum age and min-
imum years of service required of a person under subpara-
graph (A) of paragraph (1) for entitlement to retired pay 
as provided in such paragraph are as follows:
‘‘Age, in years, is 
The minimum years of service 
at least: 
required for that age is: 
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20.’’.
(b) 20-YEAR LETTER.—Subsection (d) of such sec-
tion is amended by striking ‘‘the years of service required 
for eligibility for retired pay under this chapter’’ in the 
first sentence and inserting ‘‘20 years of service computed 
under section 12732 of this title.’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section and the amend-
ments made by this subsection (a) shall take effect on the 
first day of the first month beginning on or after the date 
of the enactment of this Act and shall apply with respect 
to retired pay payable for that month and subsequent 
months.
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