Title: Military Pay Protection Act of 2017
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Military Pay Protection Act of 2017
This bill requires the Department of the Treasury, during a government shutdown, to make available to the Department of Defense (DOD) and to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in the case of the Coast Guard, such amounts as necessary to continue to provide: (1) pay and allowances to members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, including reserve components, who perform active service during the shutdown and, at DOD's discretion, to DOD civilian and contractor personnel providing direct support to such members; and (2) funding necessary to prevent interruptions or delays in the performance of domestic disaster relief and recovery operations during the shutdown.
The bill defines "government shutdown" as any portion of a fiscal year for which funds have not been appropriated for such purposes.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2220 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2220

To appropriate such funds as may be necessary to ensure that members of 
the Armed Forces, including reserve components thereof, and supporting 
     civilian and contractor personnel continue to receive pay and 
  allowances for active service performed when a Government shutdown 
                    occurs, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 27, 2017

  Ms. Sinema introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
   Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on 
  Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To appropriate such funds as may be necessary to ensure that members of 
the Armed Forces, including reserve components thereof, and supporting 
     civilian and contractor personnel continue to receive pay and 
  allowances for active service performed when a Government shutdown 
                    occurs, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Military Pay Protection Act of 
2017''.

SEC. 2. EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS TO PROVIDE PAY AND ALLOWANCES 
              FOR MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES AND SUPPORTING CIVILIAN 
              AND CONTRACTOR PERSONNEL DURING GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN.

    (a) Emergency Appropriation.--During a Government shutdown, the 
Secretary of the Treasury shall make available to the Secretary of 
Defense (and the Secretary of Homeland Security in the case of the 
Coast Guard), out of any amounts in the general fund of the Treasury 
not otherwise appropriated, such amounts as the Secretary of Defense 
(and the Secretary of Homeland Security in the case of the Coast Guard) 
determines to be necessary to continue to provide the following:
            (1) Pay and allowances (without interruption) to the 
        following:
                    (A) Members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine 
                Corps, and Coast Guard, including reserve components 
                thereof, who perform active service during the 
                Government shutdown.
                    (B) At the discretion of the Secretary of Defense, 
                such civilian personnel of the Department of Defense 
                who are providing support to the members of the Armed 
                Forces described in paragraph (1) as the Secretary 
                considers appropriate.
                    (C) At the discretion of the Secretary of Defense, 
                such personnel of contractors of the Department of 
                Defense who are providing direct support to the members 
                of the Armed Forces described in paragraph (1) as the 
                Secretary considers appropriate.
            (2) Funding necessary to prevent interruptions or delays in 
        the performance of domestic disaster relief and recovery 
        operations by military, civilian, and contractor personnel 
        during the Government shutdown.
    (b) Government Shutdown Defined.--In this section, the term 
``Government shutdown'' means any portion of a fiscal year for which 
funds have not been appropriated for the purposes specified in 
subsection (a) for the entire fiscal year and an Act or joint 
resolution making continuing appropriations for such purposes for that 
portion of the fiscal year is not in effect.
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