Title: A bill to amend title 31, United States Code, to provide that activities relating to the training and readiness of the reserve components of the Armed Forces during a lapse in appropriations shall constitute voluntary services that may be accepted by the United States.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
This bill provides that, during a lapse in appropriations for the Department of Defense or the Department of Homeland Security, activities related to the training and readiness of the Armed Forces (including the National Guard and the Reserves) are considered voluntary services that may be accepted by the federal government or the District of Columbia government.
(Under current law, the federal government or the District of Columbia government may not accept voluntary services or employ personal services exceeding those authorized by law except for emergencies involving the safety of human life or the protection of property.)

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 114 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 114

   To amend title 31, United States Code, to provide that activities 
relating to the training and readiness of the reserve components of the 
    Armed Forces during a lapse in appropriations shall constitute 
     voluntary services that may be accepted by the United States.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 14, 2019

    Mr. Hoeven (for himself, Mr. Thune, Mr. Daines, and Mr. Rounds) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 31, United States Code, to provide that activities 
relating to the training and readiness of the reserve components of the 
    Armed Forces during a lapse in appropriations shall constitute 
     voluntary services that may be accepted by the United States.

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

SECTION 1. TREATMENT OF ACTIVITIES RELATING TO TRAINING AND READINESS 
              OF THE ARMED FORCES DURING A LAPSE IN APPROPRIATIONS AS 
              VOLUNTARY SERVICES ACCEPTABLE BY THE UNITED STATES.

    Section 1342 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following new sentence: ``However, the term does include 
any portion of a fiscal year during which the appropriation bill for 
the fiscal year for the Department of Defense or the Department of 
Homeland Security, as applicable, has not become law and an Act or 
joint resolution making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 
is not in effect, but only with respect to activities relating to the 
training and readiness of the Armed Forces (including the National 
Guard and the Reserves) carried out during such portion of the fiscal 
year.''.
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