Pay Our Coast Guard Act

Bill: 114-s-545
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2015-02-24
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Appropriations

Cemeteries and funerals

Coast guard

Department of Homeland Security

Executive agency funding and structure

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Military personnel and dependents
Latest action: action_date: 2015-02-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-02-24
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Pay Our Coast Guard Act </b></p> <p>This bill provides FY2015 appropriations to the Coast Guard for any period during which FY2015 appropriations are not in effect. The appropriations are provided to the Coast Guard for:</p> <ul> <li>pay and allowances for members of the Coast Guard, civilian employees, and contractors; and</li> <li> the payment of a death gratuity, funeral travel, and the temporary continuation of the basic allowance for housing for dependents of members of the Coast Guard dying on active duty. </li> </ul> <p>The appropriations are provided until the enactment of specified appropriations legislation or January 1, 2016. </p>

tv_txt: II 114th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 545 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES February 24, 2015 Mr. Thune introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations A BILL Making continuing appropriations for Coast Guard pay in the event the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2015 expires and the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2015 is not enacted.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Pay Our Coast Guard Act . 2. Continuing appropriations for members of the Coast Guard There are hereby appropriated for fiscal year 2015, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for any period during which interim or full-year appropriations for fiscal year 2015 for the Coast Guard are not in effect— (1) such sums as are necessary to provide pay and allowances to members of the Coast Guard (as described in section 1 of title 14, United States Code), including the reserve component thereof, who perform active service or inactive-duty training during such period; (2) such sums as are necessary to provide pay and allowances to civilian employees of the Coast Guard; (3) such sums as are necessary to provide pay and allowances to contractors of the Coast Guard; and (4) such sums as are necessary for— (A) the payment of a death gratuity under sections 1475–1477 and 1489 of title 10, United States Code, with respect to members of the Coast Guard; (B) the payment or reimbursement of authorized funeral travel and travel related to the dignified transfer of remains and unit memorial services under section 481f of title 37, United States Code, with respect to members of the Coast Guard; and (C) the temporary continuation of a basic allowance of housing for dependents of members of the Coast Guard dying on active duty, as authorized by section 403(l) of title 37, United States Code. 3. Termination Appropriations and funds made available and authority granted pursuant to this Act shall be available until whichever of the following first occurs: (1) The enactment into law of an appropriation (including a continuing appropriation) for any purpose for which amounts are made available in section 2. (2) The enactment into law of the applicable regular or continuing appropriations resolution or other Act without any appropriation for such purpose. (3) January 1, 2016.