[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 64 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 64

   To provide benefits under the Survivor Benefit Plan to surviving 
spouses of certain members of the Armed Forces retired before September 
                               21, 1972.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 5, 1993

Mr. Bilirakis introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide benefits under the Survivor Benefit Plan to surviving 
spouses of certain members of the Armed Forces retired before September 
                               21, 1972.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) subparagraph 
(B) of subsection (a)(1) of section 5 of the Uniformed Services 
Survivor Benefits Amendments of 1980 (10 U.S.C. 1448 note) is amended 
to read as follows:
            ``(B) had served on active duty in the uniformed services 
        for a period of not less than 20 years; and''.
    (b) Subsection (b)(1) of such section is amended by inserting ``to 
which the member was entitled when he died or'' after ``retired or 
retainer pay'' the second place it appears.
    Sec. 2. (a) The amendments made by the first section of this Act 
shall take effect on the first day of the second calendar month 
following the month in which this Act is enacted and shall apply to 
annuities payable by virtue of such amendments for months beginning on 
or after such date.
    (b) No benefits shall accrue to any person by virtue of the 
enactment of this Act for any period before the effective date of this 
Act.

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