Title: Guard and Reserve Retirement Points during COVID–19 Pandemic Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Guard and Reserve Retirement Points during COVID-19 Pandemic Act
This bill authorizes the Department of Defense to approve constructive credit towards retirement for a reservist of the Armed Forces who cannot complete minimum annual training requirements due to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) national emergency.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7382 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7382

  To authorize the Secretary of Defense to prescribe regulations that 
   grant constructive credit towards retirement for a member of the 
  reserve components of the Armed Forces who cannot complete minimum 
 annual training requirements due to cancellation or other extenuating 
            circumstance arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 26, 2020

   Mr. Brown of Maryland (for himself, Mr. Waltz, Mr. Vela, and Mr. 
  Cisneros) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
  To authorize the Secretary of Defense to prescribe regulations that 
   grant constructive credit towards retirement for a member of the 
  reserve components of the Armed Forces who cannot complete minimum 
 annual training requirements due to cancellation or other extenuating 
            circumstance arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.

    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 ``Guard and Reserve Retirement Points 
during COVID-19 Pandemic Act''.

SEC. 2. CONSTRUCTIVE CREDIT FOR CERTAIN MEMBERS OF THE RESERVE 
              COMPONENTS WHO CANNOT COMPLETE MINIMUM ANNUAL TRAINING 
              REQUIREMENTS AS A RESULT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC.

    (a) Authority.--Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of 
Defense, the Secretary, in computing retired pay pursuant to Section 
12733 of title 10, United States Code, may approve constructive credit, 
in addition to points earned under section 12732(a)(2) of such title, 
for a member of the reserve components of the Armed Forces who cannot 
complete minimum annual training requirements due to cancellation or 
other extenuating circumstance arising from the covered national 
emergency.
    (b) Reporting.--
            (1) Report required.--Not later than one year after the 
        date on which the covered national emergency ends, the 
        Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense 
        committees a report on the use of the authority under 
        subsection (a).
            (2) Elements.--The report under this subsection shall 
        include, with respect to each reserve component, the following:
                    (A) The number of individuals granted constructive 
                credit as a result of a training cancellation.
                    (B) The number of individuals granted constructive 
                credit as a result of another extenuating circumstance.
                    (C) Recommendations of the Secretary whether the 
                authority under subsection (a) should be made permanent 
                and under what circumstances such permanent authority 
                should apply.
            (3) Publication.--Not later than 30 days after submitting 
        the report under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall--
                    (A) publish the report on a publicly accessible 
                website of the Department of Defense; and
                    (B) ensure that any data in the report is made 
                available in a machine-readable format that is 
                downloadable, searchable, and sortable.
    (c) Covered National Emergency Defined.--In this section, the term 
``covered national emergency'' means the national emergency declared on 
March 13, 2020, by the President under the National Emergencies Act (50 
U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) with respect to COVID-19.
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