[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6271 Introduced in House (IH)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6271

To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide that, in the case of 
any member or former member of a reserve component of the Armed Forces 
 who is deployed to a combat theater due to an administrative error by 
the Department of Defense, the member shall be given nonregular service 
    retirement credit equal to six times the length of the mistaken 
                              deployment.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 29, 2006

   Mr. Brown of Ohio (for himself and Mr. Strickland) 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 provide that, in the case of 
any member or former member of a reserve component of the Armed Forces 
 who is deployed to a combat theater due to an administrative error by 
the Department of Defense, the member shall be given nonregular service 
    retirement credit equal to six times the length of the mistaken 
                              deployment.

    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 ``Erroneous Deployment Compensation 
Act''.

SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL NONREGULAR SERVICE RETIREMENT CREDIT FOR MEMBER OR 
              FORMER MEMBER OF A RESERVE COMPONENT DEPLOYED TO A COMBAT 
              THEATER DUE TO AN ADMINISTRATIVE ERROR BY THE DEPARTMENT 
              OF DEFENSE.

    (a) Retired Pay Eligibility.--Section 12732 of title 10, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subsection:
    ``(c) In the case of a person who, as determined by the Secretary 
of Defense, was ordered to active duty after September 11, 2001, and 
deployed to a combat theater of operations only by reason of 
administrative error by Department of Defense personnel, the person's 
years of service computed under subsection (a) are increased by five 
additional years for each year of service credited under subsection 
(a)(2) during which the person had 50 days or more of active service in 
the combat theater of operations.''.
    (b) Retired Pay Computation.--Section 12733 of title 10, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph:
            ``(5) In the case of a person who, as determined by the 
        Secretary of Defense, was ordered to active duty after 
        September 11, 2001, and was deployed to a combat theater of 
        operations only by reason of administrative error by Department 
        of Defense personnel, five days (in addition to the days 
        credited under paragraph (1)) for each day during which the 
        person was so deployed in a combat theater of operations by 
        reason of administrative error.''.
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