[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1144 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

  1st Session
                                S. 1144

 To provide 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.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 26, 2005

 Mrs. Clinton introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
              referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide 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.

    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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