Title: National Guard and Reserves Benefits Parity Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
National Guard and Reserves Benefits Parity Act
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]
[S. 2416 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2416

 To amend titles 5, 10, and 37, 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.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 12, 2018

 Mr. Wicker (for himself and Mr. Coons) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend titles 5, 10, and 37, 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.

    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 ``National Guard and Reserves Benefits 
Parity Act''.

SEC. 2. 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. 3. 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''.

SEC. 4. 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''.
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