National Guard and Reserve Incentive Pay Parity Act

Bill: 117-s-1859
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL]
Introduced: 2021-05-26
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military personnel and dependents

National Guard and reserves

Wages and earnings
Latest action: action_date: 2021-05-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-05-26
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>National Guard and Reserve Incentive Pay Parity Act</strong></p> <p>This bill requires the military department concerned to pay members of the reserve components a special bonus or incentive pay in the same monthly amount that is paid to members in the regular component of the service for performing comparable work requiring comparable skills.</p>

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1859 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 26, 2021 Ms. Duckworth (for herself and Ms. Cortez Masto ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services A BILL To amend title 37, United States Code, to require the Secretary concerned to pay a member in the reserve component of an Armed Force a special bonus or incentive pay in the same amount as a member in the regular component of that Armed Force.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the National Guard and Reserve Incentive Pay Parity Act . 2. Equal special bonus and incentive pay for members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces (a) In general Subchapter II of chapter 5 of title 37, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section: 357. Special bonus and incentive pay authorities for members of the reserve components of the armed forces The Secretary concerned shall pay a member of the reserve component of an armed force a special bonus or incentive pay in the same monthly amount as that paid to a member in the regular component of such armed force performing comparable work requiring comparable skills. . (b) Technical amendment The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 356 the following: 357. Special bonus and incentive pay authorities for members of the reserve components of the armed forces. .