SENATE 66115th CongressSubmitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S1416; text of measure as passed: CR S1398-1399)

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Last Action: 2/17/2017

Actions

2017-01-09Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
2017-01-09Introduced in Senate

CRS Summary

As of 2017-01-09 (00)

Retired Pay Restoration Act

This bill allows the receipt of both military retired pay and veterans' disability compensation with respect to any service-connected disability (under current law, such a disability must be rated as not less than 50% disabling).

The bill makes eligible for the full concurrent receipt of both veterans' disability compensation and either military retired pay or combat-related special pay those individuals who were retired or separated from military service due to a service-connected disability.

Cosponsors (13)

Jon Tester (D-MT)
Roy Blunt (R-MO)
Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
Edward Markey (D-MA)
Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
John Boozman (R-AR)
Christopher Coons (D-DE)
Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)

Subjects

Disability and paralysis
Veterans' pensions and compensation

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