Title: Reserve Component Benefits Parity Act of 2018
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Reserve Component Benefits Parity Act of 2018
This bill makes reserve component members who are deployed to support pre-planned operations of a combatant command eligible for: (1) non-reduction in pay while serving in the uniformed services or National Guard, (2) consideration of active duty service to reduce the age for retired pay; and (3) the high-deployment allowance for lengthy or numerous deployments and frequent mobilizations.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5038 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5038

To amend titles 5, 10, and 37 of the United States Code to ensure that 
  an order to serve on active duty under section 12304b of title 10, 
  United States Code, is treated the same as other orders to serve on 
active duty for determining the eligibility of members of the uniformed 
         services for certain benefits, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 15, 2018

 Mr. Palazzo (for himself and Mr. Walz) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition 
to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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 amend titles 5, 10, and 37 of the United States Code to ensure that 
  an order to serve on active duty under section 12304b of title 10, 
  United States Code, is treated the same as other orders to serve on 
active duty for determining the eligibility of members of the uniformed 
         services for certain benefits, 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 ``Reserve Component Benefits Parity 
Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITY OF RESERVE COMPONENT MEMBERS FOR NONREDUCTION IN 
              PAY WHILE SERVING IN THE UNIFORMED SERVICES OR NATIONAL 
              GUARD.

    Section 5538(a) of title 5, United States Code, is amended in the 
matter preceding paragraph (1) by inserting after ``under'' the 
following: ``section 12304b of title 10 or''.

SEC. 3. CONSIDERATION OF SERVICE ON ACTIVE DUTY TO REDUCE AGE FOR 
              ELIGIBILITY FOR RETIRED PAY FOR NON-REGULAR SERVICE.

    Section 12731(f)(2)(B)(i) of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended by striking ``under a provision of law referred to in section 
101(a)(13)(B) or under section 12301(d)'' and inserting ``under section 
12301(d) or 12304b of this title or a provision of law referred to in 
section 101(a)(13)(B)''.

SEC. 4. ELIGIBILITY OF RESERVE COMPONENT MEMBERS FOR HIGH-DEPLOYMENT 
              ALLOWANCE FOR LENGTHY OR NUMEROUS DEPLOYMENTS AND 
              FREQUENT MOBILIZATIONS.

    Section 436(a)(2)(C)(ii) of title 37, United States Code, is 
amended by inserting after ``under'' the first place it appears the 
following: ``section 12304b of title 10 or''.
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