[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2701 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2701

To amend title 10, United States Code, to extend to additional military 
 retirees with service-connected disabilities the special compensation 
      authority provided for certain retirees with combat-related 
                             disabilities.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 10, 2003

Mrs. Jo Ann Davis of Virginia introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to extend to additional military 
 retirees with service-connected disabilities the special compensation 
      authority provided for certain retirees with combat-related 
                             disabilities.

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

SECTION 1. PURPOSE.

    The purpose of this Act is to continue the process of enactment, 
through an incremental approach, of the elimination of the requirement, 
in the case of a retired member of the uniformed services who has a 
service-connected disability, of the offset of that member's military 
retired pay by the amount of disability compensation that member 
receives from the Department of Veterans Affairs, with the eventual 
goal of providing for such a member full concurrent receipt of the 
member's retired pay and veterans' disability compensation.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF SPECIAL COMPENSATION PAYMENT AUTHORITY FOR 
              MILITARY RETIREES WITH SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITIES.

    (a) Repeal of Limitation to Combat-Related Disabilities.--Section 
1413a of title 10, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``combat-related'' each place it appears in 
        subsection (a), (b), (c), and (d); and
            (2) in subsection (e)--
                    (A) by striking ``Combat-Related'' in the 
                subsection heading;
                    (B) by striking ``combat-related'' in the matter 
                preceding paragraph (1); and
                    (C) by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the 
                following:
            ``(2) A service-connected disability that is rated as not 
        less than 50 percent disabling--
                    ``(A) by the Secretary concerned, as of the date on 
                which the member is retired from the uniformed 
                services, under criteria prescribed by the Secretary of 
                Defense; or
                    ``(B) by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendments.--(1) The heading of such section is 
amended to read as follows:
``Sec. 1413a. Special compensation for certain disabled uniformed 
              services retirees ''.
    (2) The item relating to such section in the table of sections at 
the beginning of such section is amended to read as follows:

``1413a. Special compensation for certain disabled uniformed services 
                            retirees.''.
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to payments of special compensation under section 
1413a of title 10, United States Code, as amended by subsection (a), 
payable for months beginning after the date of the enactment of this 
Act.
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