[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2499 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2499

    To provide that members of the National Guard who served in the 
 counties declared Federal disaster areas in response to the September 
11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, and who served under 
State duty so that they could immediately assist in the response to the 
 terrorist attacks should have that service counted as Federal active 
 duty for purposes of military retirement credit under chapter 1223 of 
                     title 10, United States Code.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 19, 2005

   Mrs. Maloney (for herself, Mr. King of New York, Mr. Israel, Mr. 
Fossella, Mrs. Lowey, Mr. Towns, Mr. Ackerman, Mr. Owens, Mr. Hinchey, 
 Mr. Serrano, and Mrs. McCarthy) introduced the following bill; which 
            was referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
    To provide that members of the National Guard who served in the 
 counties declared Federal disaster areas in response to the September 
11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, and who served under 
State duty so that they could immediately assist in the response to the 
 terrorist attacks should have that service counted as Federal active 
 duty for purposes of military retirement credit under chapter 1223 of 
                     title 10, United States Code.

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

SECTION 1. MILITARY RETIREMENT CREDIT FOR CERTAIN SERVICE BY NATIONAL 
              GUARD MEMBERS PERFORMED WHILE IN A STATE DUTY STATUS 
              IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE TERRORIST ATTACKS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 
              2001.

    (a) Retirement Credit.--Service of a member of the Ready Reserve of 
the Army National Guard or Air National Guard described in subsection 
(b) shall be deemed to be service creditable under section 
12732(a)(2)(A)(i) of title 10, United States Code.
    (b) Covered Service.--Service referred to in subsection (a) is 
full-time State active duty service that a member of the National Guard 
performed on or after September 11, 2001, and before October 1, 2002, 
in any of the counties specified in subsection (c) to support a Federal 
declaration of emergency following the terrorist attacks on the United 
States of September 11, 2001.
    (c) Covered Counties.--The counties referred to in subsection (b) 
are the following:
            (1) In the State of New York: Bronx, Kings, New York 
        (boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhattan), Queens, Richmond, 
        Delaware, Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk, 
        Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester
            (2) In the State of Virginia: Arlington.
    (d) Applicability.--Subsection (a) shall take effect as of 
September 11, 2001.
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