[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2854 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2854

To amend title 10, United States Code, to clarify the effective date of 
 active duty of members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces 
receiving an alert order anticipating a call or order to active duty in 
   support of a contingency operation for purposes of entitlement to 
 medical and dental care as members of the Armed Forces on active duty.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 14, 2008

Mr. Reid (for Mrs. Clinton (for herself and Mr. Pryor)) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                             Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to clarify the effective date of 
 active duty of members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces 
receiving an alert order anticipating a call or order to active duty in 
   support of a contingency operation for purposes of entitlement to 
 medical and dental care as members of the Armed Forces on active duty.

    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 ``National Guard and Reserve Medical 
Readiness Act of 2008''.

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE OF ACTIVE DUTY FOR PURPOSES OF ENTITLEMENT TO 
              ACTIVE DUTY HEALTH CARE OF MEMBERS OF THE RESERVE 
              COMPONENTS OF THE ARMED FORCES RECEIVING ALERT ORDER 
              ANTICIPATING A CALL OR ORDER TO ACTIVE DUTY IN SUPPORT OF 
              A CONTINGENCY OPERATION.

    Subsection (d) of section 1074 of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
    ``(d)(1) For purposes of this chapter, a member of a reserve 
component of the armed forces shall be treated as a member of the armed 
forces on active duty as follows:
            ``(A) On the date of the issuance of the alert order for 
        the member's unit in anticipation of the mobilization of the 
        unit for service for a period of more than 30 days in support 
        of a contingency operation.
            ``(B) On the date of the issuance of the order providing 
        for the assignment or attachment of the member to a unit 
        subject to an alert order described in paragraph (1).
    ``(2) If the alert order for a member's unit (or the unit to which 
the member is assigned or attached) is rescinded, the member shall 
cease to be treated on active duty for purposes of this chapter as of 
the date of the issuance of the order rescinding such alert order.''.
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