[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1347 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1347

To extend the period during which members of the Armed Forces deployed 
  in contingency operations may request and receive reimbursement for 
helmet pads, which are designed to protect the wearer from bomb blasts 
     and non-ballistic impacts, that are purchased by such members.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 6, 2007

    Ms. Hooley (for herself, Ms. Bean, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Johnson of 
Georgia, Mr. Patrick J. Murphy of Pennsylvania, Ms. Berkley, Mr. Stark, 
Mr. Filner, Mr. Miller of North Carolina, Ms. Matsui, Mr. Lipinski, Mr. 
Boswell, Mr. Kind, Mr. Spratt, Mr. Baird, Mrs. Capps, Ms. DeGette, Mr. 
Wynn, Mrs. Maloney of New York, Mr. Conyers, Mr. Courtney, Mr. DeFazio, 
  Mr. Holt, Mr. Inslee, Mr. McDermott, Mr. McIntyre, Mr. Michaud, Mr. 
Moore of Kansas, Mr. Ross, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Tanner, Mr. Thompson of 
 California, Mr. Van Hollen, Ms. McCollum of Minnesota, and Mr. Boren) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To extend the period during which members of the Armed Forces deployed 
  in contingency operations may request and receive reimbursement for 
helmet pads, which are designed to protect the wearer from bomb blasts 
     and non-ballistic impacts, that are purchased by such members.

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

SECTION 1. EXTENSION OF PERIOD FOR REIMBURSEMENT FOR HELMET PADS 
              PURCHASED BY MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES DEPLOYED IN 
              CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS.

    Section 351 of the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2005 (Public Law 108-375; 118 Stat. 1857) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(3), by inserting before the period at 
        the end the following: ``, or in the case of protective helmet 
        pads purchased by a member for that member's personal use, on 
        September 30, 2007'';
            (2) in subsection (c), by inserting before the period at 
        the end the following: ``or one year after the date on which 
        the purchase of the protective, safety, or health equipment was 
        made, whichever occurs last''; and
            (3) in subsection (d), by adding at the end the following 
        new sentence: ``Subsection (a)(1) shall not apply in the case 
        of the purchase of protective helmet pads by or on behalf of a 
        member.''.
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