Title: A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the amount of special pension for Medal of Honor recipients, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
This bill increases the special monthly pension for living Medal of Honor recipients.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) shall not make an annual pension increase for such recipients, effective December 1, 2017, if the increased monthly pension under this bill takes effect before such date. If the VA does not make the December 1, 2017 increase, however, annual increases shall resume as of December 1, 2018.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1209 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1209

   To amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the amount of 
 special pension for Medal of Honor recipients, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 23, 2017

 Mr. Graham (for himself, Mr. Cotton, Mr. Blumenthal, and Mr. Markey) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the amount of 
 special pension for Medal of Honor recipients, 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. INCREASE IN SPECIAL PENSION FOR MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENTS.

    (a) In General.--Section 1562(a) of title 38, United States Code, 
is amended by striking ``$1,000'' and inserting ``$3,000''.
    (b) Effective Date.--
            (1) In general.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
        take effect on the date that is--
                    (A) except as provided in subparagraph (B), 180 
                days after the date of the enactment of this Act; and
                    (B) in the case that the date that is 180 days 
                after the date of the enactment of this Act is not the 
                first day of a month, the first day of the first month 
                beginning after the date that is 180 days after the 
                date of the enactment of this Act.
            (2) Delay of annual cost-of-living adjustment.--
                    (A) In general.--The Secretary shall not make an 
                increase pursuant to section 1562(e) of such title 
                effective December 1, 2017, if the amendment made by 
                subsection (a) takes effect before such date.
                    (B) Resumption.--In the case that the Secretary, 
                pursuant to subparagraph (A), does not make an increase 
                pursuant to section 1562(e) of such title effective 
                December 1, 2017, the Secretary shall resume making 
                increases pursuant to such section with the first such 
                increase effective December 1, 2018.
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