[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2258 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2258

  To apply the expanded definition of disposable retired pay used for 
    computation of the maximum amount of a former spouse's share of 
military retired pay to divorces that became final before the effective 
 date of amendments made by Public Law 101-510 as well as those after 
                               that date.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 25, 1993

Mrs. Schroeder introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
  To apply the expanded definition of disposable retired pay used for 
    computation of the maximum amount of a former spouse's share of 
military retired pay to divorces that became final before the effective 
 date of amendments made by Public Law 101-510 as well as those after 
                               that date.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. APPLICABILITY TO PREVIOUS DIVORCES OF CHANGE IN RULES FOR 
              COMPUTING MAXIMUM FORMER SPOUSE SHARE OF MILITARY RETIRED 
              PAY.

    (a) Change in Applicability.--Paragraph (2) of section 555(e) of 
the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (Public Law 
101-510; 104 Stat. 1570) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(2) The amendments made by subsections (b), (c), and (d) apply to 
divorces, dissolutions of marriage, annulments, and legal separations 
that become effective at any time, whether before, on, or after the 
date of the enactment of this Act.''.
    (b) Effective Date of Changes.--Any change in payments of military 
retired or retainer pay by reason of subsection (a) may apply only to 
payments of military retired or retainer pay payable for months 
beginning after the end of the 90-day period beginning on the date of 
the enactment of this Act.

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