Reserve Component Benefits Parity Act
- Last Action
- 4/5/2017
Actions
- 2017-04-05Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
- 2017-03-30Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Discharged.
- 2017-03-17Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
- 2017-03-09Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
- 2017-03-07Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs, and Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- 2017-03-07Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs, and Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- 2017-03-07Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs, and Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- 2017-03-07Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs, and Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- 2017-03-07Introduced in House
- 2017-03-07Introduced in House
CRS Summary
As of 2017-03-07 (00)
Reserve Component Benefits Parity Act
This bill makes reserve component members who are deployed to support pre planned operations of a combatant command eligible for: (1) pre-mobilization health care, (2) transitional health care, (3) consideration of active duty service to reduce the age for retired pay, (4) the high-deployment allowance for lengthy or numerous deployments and frequent mobilizations, (5) Post-9/11 educational assistance, and (6) non-reduction in pay while serving in the uniformed services or National Guard.
The bill makes reserve component members who are deployed in response to a major disaster or emergency eligible for Post-9/11 educational assistance.
The bill makes all such reserve component members eligible for extension of the time limitation during deployment with respect to: (1) educational assistance, and (2) training and rehabilitation assistance for veterans with service-connected disabilities.
Cosponsors (20)
- Timothy Walz (D-MN)
- Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH)
- Trent Franks (R-AZ)
- Chris Stewart (R-UT)
- Aumua Amata Radewagen (R-AS)
- Seth Moulton (D-MA)
- WALTER JONES (R-NC)
- Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ)
- Keith Ellison (D-MN)
- ROBERT GOODLATTE (R-VA)
- FRANK LOBIONDO (R-NJ)
- David Loebsack (D-IA)
- Joe Courtney (D-CT)
- BETTY MCCOLLUM (D-MN)
- EARL BLUMENAUER (D-OR)
- Madeleine Bordallo (D-GU)
- ANNA ESHOO (D-CA)
- Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO)
- Marc Veasey (D-TX)
- SANFORD BISHOP (D-GA)
Subjects
- Disability and paralysis
- Disaster relief and insurance
- Higher education
- Military civil functions
- Military medicine
- Military operations and strategy
- Military personnel and dependents
- National Guard and reserves
- Student aid and college costs
- Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
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