To require the Secretary of Defense to provide to certain members of the National Guard serving on active service in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) the transitional health benefits provided to members of the reserve components separating from active duty.

Bill: 116-hr-6967
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Cunningham, Joe [D-SC-1]
Introduced: 2020-05-22
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health

Emergency medical services and trauma care

Health care coverage and access

Infectious and parasitic diseases

Military medicine

National Guard and reserves

Veterans' medical care
Latest action: action_date: 2020-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-05-22
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill requires the Department of Defense to provide a National Guard member separating from active service after full-time duty in support of the government response to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) with the transitional health benefits provided to a separating active-duty reservist.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 6967 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 22, 2020 Mr. Cunningham (for himself, Mr. Palazzo , Mr. Fitzpatrick , Mr. DeFazio , Mr. Ryan , Mr. King of New York , Mr. Kim , and Mr. Cohen ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services A BILL To require the Secretary of Defense to provide to certain members of the National Guard serving on active service in response to the coronavirus (COVID–19) the transitional health benefits provided to members of the reserve components separating from active duty.

1. Transitional health benefits for certain members of the National Guard serving under orders in response to the coronavirus (COVID–19) (a) In general The Secretary of Defense shall provide to a member of the National Guard separating from active service after serving on full-time National Guard duty pursuant to section 502(f) of title 32, United States Code, the health benefits authorized under section 1145 of title 10, United States Code, for a member of a reserve component separating from active duty, as referred to in subsection (a)(2)(B) of such section 1145, if the active service from which the member of the National Guard is separating was in support of the whole of government response to the coronavirus (COVID–19). (b) Definitions In this section, the terms active duty , active service , and full-time National Guard duty have the meanings given those terms in section 101(d) of title 10, United States Code.