Title: Ensuring Pay for Our Military Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Ensuring Pay for Our Military Act
This bill provides appropriations for military pay and allowances during a funding gap impacting the Armed Forces.
Under the bill, a "funding gap" is any period of time after the beginning of a fiscal year for which interim or full-year appropriations for the personnel accounts of the Armed Forces for that fiscal year have not been enacted.
If a funding gap occurs, the bill provides appropriations for the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Homeland Security (in the case of the Coast Guard) to continue to provide pay and allowances (without interruption) to:

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 871 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 871

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 funding gap caused by 
the failure to enact interim or full-year appropriations for the Armed 
Forces occurs, which results in the furlough of non-emergency personnel 
       and the curtailment of Government activities and services.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                April 6 (legislative day, April 4), 2017

  Mr. Heller introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
              referred to the Committee on Appropriations

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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 funding gap caused by 
the failure to enact interim or full-year appropriations for the Armed 
Forces occurs, which results in the furlough of non-emergency personnel 
       and the curtailment of Government activities and services.

    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 ``Ensuring Pay for Our Military Act''.

SEC. 2. EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS TO PROVIDE PAY AND ALLOWANCES 
              FOR MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES AND SUPPORTING CIVILIAN 
              AND CONTRACTOR PERSONNEL DURING FUNDING GAP IMPACTING THE 
              DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OR DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY.

    (a) Appropriation of Funds for Military Pay and Allowances.--During 
a funding gap impacting the Armed Forces, 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 pay and allowances (without interruption) to the 
following:
            (1) Members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and 
        Coast Guard, including reserve components thereof, who perform 
        active service during the funding gap.
            (2) 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.
            (3) 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.
    (b) Funding Gap Defined.--In this section, the term ``funding gap'' 
means any period of time after the beginning of a fiscal year for which 
interim or full-year appropriations for the personnel accounts of the 
Armed Forces for that fiscal year have not been enacted.
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