[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1994 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1994

To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide equity between active 
and reserve component members of the Armed Forces in the computation of 
         disability retired pay for members wounded in action.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 21, 2009

Mr. Davis of Kentucky 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 equity between active 
and reserve component members of the Armed Forces in the computation of 
         disability retired pay for members wounded in action.

    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 ``Citizen Soldier Equality Act of 
2009''.

SEC. 2. EQUITY IN COMPUTATION OF DISABILITY RETIRED PAY FOR RESERVE 
              COMPONENT MEMBERS WOUNDED IN ACTION.

    Section 1208(b) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following new sentence: ``However, in the case of 
such a member who is retired under this chapter, or whose name is 
placed on the temporary disability retired list under this chapter, 
because of a disability incurred after the date of the enactment of 
this sentence for which the member is awarded the Purple Heart, the 
member shall be credited, for the purposes of this chapter, with the 
number of years of service that would be counted if computing the 
member's years of service under section 12732 of this title.''.
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