I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1138 
To require the Federal Government to reimburse a State or local government 
for financial losses incurred when an employee of the State or local 
government who performs public safety or first responder duties and 
who is also a member of a reserve component of the uniformed services 
is called or ordered to active duty for a period of more than 30 days. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 23, 2009 
Mr. WEINER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Armed Services 
A BILL 
To require the Federal Government to reimburse a State 
or local government for financial losses incurred when 
an employee of the State or local government who per-
forms public safety or first responder duties and who 
is also a member of a reserve component of the uni-
formed services is called or ordered to active duty for 
a period of more than 30 days. 
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. REIMBURSEMENT OF STATE AND LOCAL GOV-
ERNMENTS FOR PRODUCTIVITY LOSSES IN-
CURRED DUE TO DEPLOYMENT OF EMPLOY-
EES WHO ARE RESERVE COMPONENT MEM-
BERS. 
(a) REIMBURSEMENT AVAILABLE.—Chapter 17 of 
title 37, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 
end the following new section: 
‘‘§ 911. Reimbursement of State and local govern-
ments for productivity losses incurred 
due to deployment of certain employees 
who are reserve component members 
‘‘(a) REIMBURSEMENT REQUIRED.—At the request 
of a State or local government that has one or more cov-
ered employees who are also members of a reserve compo-
nent and absent from their position of employment with 
the State or local government under a call or order to 
serve on active duty for a period of more than 30 days, 
and subject to the availability of appropriations for such 
purpose, the Secretary concerned shall reimburse the 
State or local government for financial losses incurred by 
the State or local government as a result of the absence 
of the covered employees in an amount equal to the 
amount of civilian compensation actually paid by the State 
or local government to the covered employees during their 
absence. 
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‘‘(b) COVERED EMPLOYEES.—Subsection (a) applies 
with respect to an employee of a State or local government 
who is an emergency response provider, as that term is 
defined under section 2(6) of the Homeland Security Act 
of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 101(6)). 
‘‘(c) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary of Defense shall 
prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to carry 
out this section. 
‘‘(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) The term ‘civilian compensation’ means 
the wages or salary that an employee of a State or 
local government normally receives from the employ-
ee’s employment by the State or local government. 
‘‘(2) The term ‘local government’ means an 
agency or political subdivision of a State. 
‘‘(3) The term ‘State’ means each of the several 
States of the United States, the District of Colum-
bia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the 
Virgin Islands, and other territories or possessions 
of the United States.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
at the beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting 
after the item relating to section 909 the following new 
item: 
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‘‘911. Reimbursement of State and local governments for productivity losses in-
curred due to deployment of certain employees who are reserve 
component members.’’. 
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