Reserve Component Benefits Parity Act

Bill: 115-hr-1384
Sponsor: Rep. Palazzo, Steven M. [R-MS-4]
Introduced: 2017-03-07 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Disaster relief and insurance
Higher education
Military civil functions
Military medicine
Military operations and strategy
Military personnel and dependents
National Guard and reserves
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: 

Reserve Component Benefits Parity Act

 
This bill makes reserve component members who are deployed to support pre planned operations of a combatant command eligible for: (1) pre-mobilization health care, (2) transitional health care, (3) consideration of active duty service to reduce the age for retired pay, (4) the high-deployment allowance for lengthy or numerous deployments and frequent mobilizations, (5) Post-9/11 educational assistance, and (6) non-reduction in pay while serving in the uniformed services or National Guard. 
 
The bill makes reserve component members who are deployed in response to a major disaster or emergency eligible for Post-9/11 educational assistance.
 
The bill makes all such reserve component members eligible for extension of the time limitation during deployment with respect to: (1) educational assistance, and (2) training and rehabilitation assistance for veterans with service-connected disabilities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2017-03-30
text: Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Discharged.
action_date: 2017-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2017-03-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs, and Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs, and Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs, and Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs, and Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Introduced in House