[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3862 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3862

To provide an automatic pay increase to any member of the Armed Forces 
  who is deployed away from the member's permanent station or, in the 
   case of a member of a reserve component of the Armed Forces, the 
member's home of record, once the deployment period exceeds 180 days of 
                            continuous duty.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 26, 2004

Mr. Scott of Virginia (for himself, Ms. Norton, Mr. Bishop of Utah, Mr. 
 Kennedy of Rhode Island, Mr. Crowley, Mr. Acevedo-Vila, Mr. Scott of 
 Georgia, Ms. DeLauro, Mr. Ryan of Ohio, Mr. Towns, Mr. Jefferson, Mr. 
  Strickland, Mrs. Maloney, Mr. Frost, Mr. Rangel, Mr. McGovern, Mr. 
Stark, Mr. Walsh, and Ms. Woolsey) introduced the following bill; which 
            was referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide an automatic pay increase to any member of the Armed Forces 
  who is deployed away from the member's permanent station or, in the 
   case of a member of a reserve component of the Armed Forces, the 
member's home of record, once the deployment period exceeds 180 days of 
                            continuous duty.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Extended Deployment Pay Increase Act 
of 2004''.

SEC. 2. PAY INCREASE FOR MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES SERVING 
              DEPLOYMENTS IN EXCESS OF 180 DAYS.

    (a) Extended Deployment Pay Increase.--A member of the Armed Forces 
who completes a period of 180 days of continuous duty on deployment 
away from the permanent station of the member or, in the case of a 
member of a reserve component of the Armed Forces, the home of record 
of the member, is entitled to an increase in the rate of basic pay in 
the amount of $1000 for each month thereafter during which the member 
continues such deployment. Once a member has satisfied the continuous 
duty requirement with respect to a deployment, the member is not 
required to resatisfy the continuous duty requirement for the same 
deployment despite any break thereafter in the continuity of the 
deployment due to authorized leave or other absence.
    (b) Retroactive Application.--Duty performed in connection with a 
deployment underway as of the date of the enactment of this Act, but 
commenced before such date, shall be counted toward the 180-day period 
specified in subsection (a). In the case of a member who completed the 
required period of continuous duty before the date of the enactment of 
this Act, the entitlement to the increase in basic pay shall take 
effect on the first day of the first month beginning after the date of 
the enactment of this Act.
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