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Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2009-03-16 00:00:00

Removes the requirement that the person detailed as Chief of the Navy Dental Corps be of a rank not less than rear admiral (lower half) at the time of the detail. Requires an appointee to such position holding a lower grade to be appointed in the regular grade of rear admiral.
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2009-03-16 00:00:00

Directs the Secretary of Defense to conduct a study evaluating and comparing the effectiveness of programs designed to diagnose, treat, and prevent post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2009-03-17 00:00:00

Caring for Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) the Committee on Care of Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury to continually assess VHA capability to meet the treatment and rehabilitation needs of veterans with traumatic brain injury.
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2009-03-18 00:00:00

Guarantees a pay increase for uniformed services members for FY2011-FY2014 of 0.5% higher than the Employment Cost Index.
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2009-03-19 00:00:00

Military Personnel Income Tax Exclusion Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross income of members of the uniformed services for income tax purposes certain military benefits and basic pay.
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2009-03-19 00:00:00

Includes participation in clean-up operations at Eniwetok Atoll as a radiation-risk activity for purposes of laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2009-03-19 00:00:00

Honor the Written Intent of our Soldier Heroes Act or Honor the WISH Act - Includes, as a person authorized to direct disposition of the remains of a member of the Armed Forces who dies while on active duty, the person identified by the decedent on the record of emergency data maintained by the Secretary of the military department concerned as the Person Authorized to Direct Disposition, regardless of the relationship of the designee to the decedent.
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2009-03-19 00:00:00

Veterans' Employment Transition Support Act of 2009 or the VETS Act of 2009- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers a general business tax credit for hiring certain veterans certified by designated local agencies as having served on active duty (other than for training) in the Armed Forces for a period of more than 180 days or having been discharged or released from active duty for a service-connected disability. Sets the amount of such credit at 40% of the first-year wages of such veterans and increases the percentage of such credit for disabled veterans based upon their disability ratings.
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Congress
Date: 2009-03-24 00:00:00

House Reservists Pay Adjustment Act of 2009 - Requires the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) of the House of Representatives to pay an eligible House employee, who is also a member of a Reserve component of the Armed Forces, for each active duty month the amount by which the employee's regular compensation from the House would have exceeded (if at all) the total monthly military compensation paid to the employee for the active duty month by the Secretary of Defense. Limits employee eligibility for such adjusted compensation to those employed by the House each day of the 90 days ending on the day on which the employee reports for active duty under an involuntary mobilization order. Requires the CAO to reduce the amount of any payment to such employee for an active duty month by the amount of any pay and allowances received by the individual from any other source as replacement of lost income. Prohibits the CAO from making a required payment under this Act unless the payment, taking into account any reduction, is at least $50. Amends Rule XXIII (Code of Official Conduct) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to declare that nothing in such Rule may be construed to prohibit the disbursement or receipt of any payment authorized under this Act. Amends the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1955 to declare that nothing in the Act may be construed to prohibit the CAO from paying a gratuity to the widow, widower, or heirs-at-law of a House employee who dies during an active duty month.
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2009-03-24 00:00:00

Veterans Transitional Assistance Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish in the Department of Defense (DOD) the Office of Technical Assistance to carry out the Secretary's responsibilities of establishing and operating a wounded warrior resource (support) center, as required under the Wounded Warrior Act. Requires the Office, upon the discharge or release of a member of the Armed Forces, to transmit the member's service record and contact information to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs who shall in turn contact and provide such person necessary information to apply for any benefits to which the person may be entitled through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2009-03-24 00:00:00

Allows an individual to elect to receive retired pay for non-regular (reserve) service upon retirement for service performed in an active reserve status after attaining eligibility for regular retirement, as long as the individual successfully completes at least two years of active reserve status service. Allows the Secretary of the military department concerned to reduce the two-year active reserve status requirement in certain cases. Requires the recomputation of reserve retired pay and, if appropriate, the adjustment of the retired grade of reserve retirees to reflect the successful completion of at least two years of post-retirement service in an active reserve status.
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2009-03-24 00:00:00

Reduces from 60 to 55 the minimum age for the receipt of military retired pay for non-regular service.
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2009-03-31 00:00:00

Disabled Veterans Commissary and Exchange Store Benefits Act - Permits a veteran with any compensable service-connected disability (and the veteran's dependents) to use commissary and exchange stores on the same basis as a member of the Armed Forces entitled to retired or retainer pay.
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2009-04-01 00:00:00

Waives, during FY2010, the basic military pay adjustment tied to increases in the Employment Cost Index. Increases, effective January 1, 2010, such basic pay by 3.4%.
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2009-04-02 00:00:00

Secure Electronic Military Separation Act - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 to direct the Secretary of Defense to develop and implement a secure electronic method of forwarding DD Form 214 (Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty) to the appropriate office of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in which the former member of the Armed Forces will first reside.
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2009-04-02 00:00:00

Providing Real Outreach for Veterans Act of 2009 or PRO-VETS Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (Secretary) to enter into an agreement with the Secretary of Defense for the transfer of data to the Secretary for providing members of the Armed Forces and veterans with individualized information concerning veterans' benefits that each member and veteran may be eligible for. Requires the Secretary, after receiving such data, to: (1) compile a list of all benefits for which each member or veteran may be eligible; (2) notify the member or veteran (or their legal representative) of such benefits; and (3) provide a second notification if the member or veteran does not apply for a listed benefit within 60 days, as well as annual notifications thereafter. Requires additional notifications based on changed circumstances. Allows each member or veteran the option to decline further notifications. Directs the Secretary to use transferred data to reduce the amount of information that a member or veteran must provide when applying for benefits. Requires the Secretary of Defense to provide a member or veteran the opportunity to decline authorization for the transfer of information under this Act.
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2009-04-02 00:00:00

Amends the Military Construction Act, 1974 to repeal the prohibition against use of the former bombardment area on the island of Culebra (Puerto Rico) for any purpose that would require decontamination of the area at U.S. expense.
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2009-04-02 00:00:00

Modifies the requirement that the Secretary concerned provide preseparation counseling to members of the Armed Forces whose discharge or release from active duty is anticipated as of a specific date. Directs the Secretary concerned, including the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security, to require such members to receive, as part of their preseparation counseling, employment assistance, job training assistance, and other transitional services under a specified program established by the Secretary of Labor. Directs the Secretary concerned to require separating Armed Forces members to undergo a psychological evaluation (as well as a physical examination, as under current law).
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2009-04-21 00:00:00

Veterans Entitlement to Service (VETS) Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to acknowledge the receipt of any claim for medical services, disability compensation, or pension under laws administered by the Secretary, or any other communication relating to such services, compensation, or pension, within 60 days after its receipt.
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2009-04-21 00:00:00

Citizen Soldier Equality Act of 2009 - Requires that, in the case of a member of the reserves who is retired or placed on the temporary disability retired list because of an incurred disability for which the member is awarded the Purple Heart, the member shall be credited with the number of years of service that would be counted under the computation of years of service for retired pay for non-regular service.
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2009-04-27 00:00:00

Correspondence With Our Heroes Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide for a one-year program under which postal benefit vouchers are provided for the benefit of members of the Armed Forces on active duty in Iraq or Afghanistan, or hospitalized at a military facility as a result of a disease or injury incurred as a result of such service. Entitles voucher users to make free mailings to such individuals. Limits vouchers to one per month. Requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to transfer to the Postal Service an amount representing the amount of the vouchers used.
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2009-04-27 00:00:00

Veterans Travel Equity Act of 2009 - Prohibits the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, effective 90 days after the enactment of this Act, from imposing any income or pension eligibility requirement, or requiring any service-connected disability rating, in order for a veteran to be eligible for an allowance or reimbursement under the beneficiary travel program (a program authorizing a travel allowance or reimbursement for the transportation of veterans to obtain medical care).
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2009-05-05 00:00:00

Surviving Spouses' Benefit Improvement Act of 2009 - Increases the monthly rates of veterans' dependency and indemnity compensation payable to surviving spouses through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Prohibits benefits under any other law (other than duplication of benefits) from being reduced or offset because the surviving spouse is eligible for dependency and indemnity compensation.
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2009-05-05 00:00:00

Veterans Outreach Improvement Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans to establish a separate account for the funding of outreach activities of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and a separate subaccount for the funding of outreach activities of the Veterans Health Administration, the Veterans Benefits Administration, and the National Cemetery Administration. Directs the Secretary to establish and maintain procedures for ensuring the effective coordination of VA outreach activities between and among such elements, the Office of the Secretary, and the Office of Public Affairs. Authorizes the Secretary to award grants to state veterans agencies to carry out, coordinate, and improve outreach by the VA and the states.
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2009-05-06 00:00:00

Benefits for Qualified World War II Veterans Act of 2009 - Establishes in the Treasury the Qualified World War II Veterans Equity Compensation Fund for making monthly payments of $1,000 to World War II veterans who: (1) have not received benefits under the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944; and (2) performed active duty service pursuant to the GI Bill Improvement Act of 1977.
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2009-05-07 00:00:00

Defense Communities Assistance Act of 2009 - Expresses the sense of Congress on the necessity of assisting local communities coping with the impact of base closures and realignments and other military actions. Extends permanently (under current law, terminated at the end of FY2008) the authority of the Secretary of the military department concerned to convey, for certain purposes, real property on a military installation determined to be excess to the needs of the Department of Defense (DOD). Authorizes the Secretary concerned to contract for the procurement of municipal services for a U.S. military installation from a county, municipal government, or other local governmental unit in the area. Authorizes such Secretary to so contract using procedures other than competitive procedures, under certain conditions and after congressional notification. Amends the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 to extend through FY2020 a pilot program for the purchase of certain municipal services for military installations. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 to broaden the indemnification provided to transferees of military properties. Reinstates provisions of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 which allow military departments to transfer surplus real and personal property at closed or realigned military installations without consideration to local redevelopment authorities when used for economic development purposes, without the requirement to assess the property's value.
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2009-05-07 00:00:00

Military Retired Pay Fairness Act of 2009 - Provides limitations on the recoupment of separation pay, special separation benefits, and voluntary separation incentive payments from members of the Armed Forces subsequently receiving military retired or retainer pay. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense or Homeland Security, as applicable, to waive such recoupments in cases of financial hardship.
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2009-05-07 00:00:00

Soldiers Targeted by Offensive Profiteering Act of 2009 (STOP Act) - Prohibits any person, except with permission, from using the name or image of a protected individual in connection with any merchandise, retail product, impersonation, solicitation, or commercial activity in a manner calculated to connect the protected individual with that individual's service in the Armed Forces. Defines as a "protected individual" any person who: (1) is a member of the Armed Forces; or (2) was a member at any time after April 5, 1917, and, if not living, has a surviving spouse, child, parent, grandparent, or sibling. Authorizes the Attorney General to bring actions to enjoin violations of this Act.
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2009-05-11 00:00:00

Wounded Warrior Project Family Caregiver Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, as part of authorized Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) home health care services for veterans, to furnish to a family member or other designated individual advanced instruction and training and certification as a family caregiver for a veteran who incurred serious wounds on active duty during, or in training for, Operations Enduring Freedom or Iraqi Freedom and is determined to be in need of personal care services. Requires the Secretary to provide to such caregiver: (1) appropriate support services; and (2) a monthly family caregiver allowance. Authorizes the Secretary to provide medical care to such caregiver.
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2009-05-13 00:00:00

Veterans' Group Life Insurance Improvement Act of 2009 - Allows veterans insured under Veterans' Group Life Insurance, no more than once in each five-year period, to increase such coverage amount if: (1) the veteran is under 60 years of age; (2) the increase is not more than $25,000; and (3) the total amount of such insurance does not exceed $400,000 (the limit authorized for a veteran under Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance).
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2009-05-13 00:00:00

Health Care for Members of the Armed Forces Exposed to Chemical Hazards Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Defense, for each occupational and environmental health chemical hazard of particular concern, to establish and administer a registry of members and former members of the Armed Forces who were exposed to such hazard in the line of duty on or after September 11, 2001. Requires the Secretary to: (1) notify a member or former member who may have been exposed to such a hazard; and (2) provide a complete physical and medical examination of such individual. Directs the Secretary to enter into an agreement with the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies for the Institute of Medicine under which the Institute, for each incident of exposure reported in a registry, shall review and summarize the scientific evidence, and assess the strength thereof, concerning the association between the exposure to such hazard and acute and long-term health consequences of such exposure. Requires the Institute to: (1) make recommendations for necessary additional scientific studies; and (2) conduct periodic subsequent reviews of such evidence. Requires members and former members listed in registries to be notified of any conclusive determinations with respect to such exposure, as well as any other significant related developments. Makes any veteran who was exposed in the line of duty to an occupational and environmental health chemical hazard of particular concern eligible for hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for any disability, notwithstanding insufficient medical evidence to conclude that the disability may be associated with such exposure.
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2009-05-14 00:00:00

Requires contracting officers of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to use purchases of goods or services through the federal supply schedules for the purpose of meeting the government-wide goal for participation by small businesses owned and controlled by veterans and service-disabled veterans.
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2009-05-14 00:00:00

Employing America's Heroes Tax Relief Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2010 the tax credit for differential wage payments made by a small business employer on behalf of employees who are active duty members of the uniformed services.
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2009-05-18 00:00:00

Guard and Reserve Financial Stability Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow small employers (employers with 50 or fewer employees) a business tax credit for 50 percent of the lesser of: (1) actual compensation paid to each Ready Reserve-National Guard employee while on active duty or hospitalized incident to such duty; or (2) $30,000. Terminates such credit after 2009. Allows employers a work opportunity tax credit for the hiring of temporary employees to replace Ready Reserve-National Guard employees for the period such employees are on active duty.
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2009-05-19 00:00:00

Directs the Secretary of Defense, with respect to the defense budget for FY2011 and thereafter, to ensure that within the research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) account for each military department, a separate, dedicated program element is assigned to: (1) the RDT&E of body armor; and (2) the procurement of body armor. Requires the Secretary to ensure that, from amounts authorized for RDT&E, necessary sums are available for: (1) research and development of lighter body armor while maintaining equivalent level of threat protection to the improved outer tactical vest and enhanced small arms protective inserts; and (2) the creation of a task force to carry out the RDT&E of lighter body armor.
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2009-05-19 00:00:00

Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned, in the case of funeral honors for a veteran that are provided by a detail consisting solely of members of veterans organizations or other related organizations, to support the provision of such funeral honors through a daily stipend to each detail participant.
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2009-05-19 00:00:00

Directs the Secretary of Defense to study and report to Congress on the feasibility of using a distinct military identification number, instead of a Social Security number, to identify each member of the Armed Forces.
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2009-05-19 00:00:00

Veterans Communication Improvement Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense to modify the Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty (DD Form 214) to permit a member of the Armed Forces, upon discharge or release from active duty, to include an e-mail address on the form.
Topic: Defense — Personnel Issues
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2009-05-19 00:00:00

Tax Relief and Fulfilling Our Obligation to Patriotic Soldiers Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income payments made to members of the Armed Forces as a qualified bonus. Defines "qualified bonus" as an enlistment, accession, reenlistment, retention, incentive, or other bonus paid to a member of the Armed Forces to accept a commmission or extend an active service commitment as an officer, to enlist, to reenlist, to extend an enlistment in an active or reserve component, or to enter into a reserve affiliation agreement.