To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to provide the President with the authority to exempt civilian Department of Defense personnel accounts from sequestration.

Bill: 113-hr-2614
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Barrow, John [D-GA-12]
Introduced: 2013-07-08
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations

Budget deficits and national debt

Budget process

Defense spending

Department of Defense

Executive agency funding and structure

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Military personnel and dependents

Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Latest action: action_date: 2013-07-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-07-08
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to authorize the President to exempt civilian employees of the Department of Defense (DOD) who served in the Armed Forces on or after August 2, 2011, from sequestration or provide for a lower uniform percentage reduction in their compensation than would otherwise apply.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2614 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 8, 2013 Mr. Barrow of Georgia introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Budget A BILL To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to provide the President with the authority to exempt civilian Department of Defense personnel accounts from sequestration.

1. Optional exemption of civilian Department of Defense personnel who have served in the uniform services Section 255(f) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended— (1) in the side heading by inserting before the period at the end and certain civilian personnel of the Department of Defense ; and (2) in paragraph (1) by adding at the end the following new sentence: The President may also, with respect to civilian employees of the Department of Defense who served in the Armed Forces on or after August 2, 2011, exempt that portion of the personnel account covering them from sequestration or provide for a lower uniform percentage reduction than would otherwise apply. .