1.This Act may be cited as the
Gold Star Parents Annuity Act of
2007
.
2.Special pension
for Gold Star parents
(a)
(1)Chapter 15 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by
adding at the end the following new subchapter:
VSpecial pension
for Gold Star parents
1571.
(a)The Secretary
shall pay monthly to each person who has received a gold star lapel button
under section 1126 of title 10 as a parent of a person who died in a manner
described in subsection (a) of that section a special pension in an amount
determined under subsection (b).
(b)The amount of
special pension payable under this section with respect to the death of any
person shall be $125 per month. In any case in which there is more than one
parent eligible for special pension under this section with respect to the
death of a person, the Secretary shall divide the payment equally among those
eligible parents.
(c)The receipt of
special pension under this section shall not deprive any person of any other
pension or other benefit, right, or privilege to which such person is or may
hereafter be entitled under any existing or subsequent law. Special pension
under this section shall be paid in addition to all other payments under laws
of the United States.
(d)Special pension
under this section shall not be subject to any attachment, execution, levy, tax
lien, or detention under any process whatsoever.
(e)For purposes of
this section, the term parent has the meaning provided in section
1126(d)(2) of title
10.
.
(2)The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 15 of
such title is amended by adding at the end the following:
SUBCHAPTER V—SPECIAL PENSION FOR GOLD
STAR PARENTS
1571. Gold Star
parents.
.
(b)Section 1571 of title 38, United States Code, as added by
subsection (a), shall take effect on October 1, 2007.