Title: Patriot Retention Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Patriot Retention Act
This bill allows a retired service member who has more than 20 years of service, and who possesses a skill for which a critical shortage exists, to serve as a paid member of the Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces and concurrently receive retired pay.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4343 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4343

  To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize certain retired 
 members of the Armed Forces to be placed in the Ready Reserve and to 
  receive retired pay and the pay and allowances for duty that member 
                               performs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 1, 2021

  Mr. Wenstrup (for himself and Mr. Panetta) introduced the following 
      bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize certain retired 
 members of the Armed Forces to be placed in the Ready Reserve and to 
  receive retired pay and the pay and allowances for duty that member 
                               performs.

    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 ``Patriot Retention Act''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORITY TO PLACE CERTAIN RETIRED MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES 
              IN THE READY RESERVE; PAY.

    (a) Placement of Certain Members in the Ready Reserve.--Section 
10145 of such title is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subsection:
    ``(e)(1) Under such regulations as the Secretary concerned may 
prescribe, a retired member of a regular component entitled to retired 
pay may be placed in the Ready Reserve if the Secretary concerned--
            ``(A) determines that the retired member has more than 20 
        years of creditable service in that regular component; and
            ``(B) makes a special finding that the member possesses a 
        skill in which the Ready Reserve of the armed force concerned 
        has a critical shortage of personnel.
    ``(2) The authority of the Secretary concerned under paragraph (1) 
may not be delegated--
            ``(A) to a civilian officer or employee of the military 
        department concerned below the level of Assistant Secretary; or
            ``(B) to a member of the armed forces below the level of 
        the lieutenant general or vice admiral in an armed force with 
        responsibility for military personnel policy in that armed 
        force.''.
    (b) Pay for Duties Performed in the Ready Reserve in Addition to 
Retired Pay.--Section 12316 of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(c) A member placed in the Ready Reserve pursuant to section 
10145(e) of this title may receive--
            ``(1) retired pay; and
            ``(2) the pay and allowances authorized by law for duty 
        that member performs.''; and
            (2) in subsection (a), by striking ``subsection (b)'' and 
        inserting ``subsections (b) and (c)''.
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