[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1494 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1494

 Making appropriations to provide pay and allowances to members of the 
     Armed Forces, including reserve components thereof, and death 
  gratuities on behalf of deceased members and other eligible persons 
                 notwithstanding a Government shutdown.


_______________________________________________________________________


                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 12, 2011

  Mr. Owens introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Appropriations

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
 Making appropriations to provide pay and allowances to members of the 
     Armed Forces, including reserve components thereof, and death 
  gratuities on behalf of deceased members and other eligible persons 
                 notwithstanding a Government shutdown.

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

SECTION 1. EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS FOR MILITARY PAY, 
              ALLOWANCES, AND DEATH GRATUITIES DURING FUNDING GAP 
              IMPACTING THE ARMED FORCES.

    (a) Appropriation of Funds.--Amounts are hereby appropriated, out 
of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the 
Secretary of Defense (and the Secretary of Homeland Security in the 
case of the Coast Guard) during a funding gap impacting the Armed 
Forces in such amounts as may be necessary to allow the Secretaries of 
the military departments (and the Secretary of Homeland Security in the 
case of the Coast Guard)--
            (1) to provide pay and allowances without interruption to 
        members of the Armed Forces who perform active service during 
        the funding gap; and
            (2) to provide death gratuities on a timely basis pursuant 
        to subchapter II of chapter 75 of title 10, United States Code, 
        during the funding gap.
    (b) Funding Gap Defined.--In this section, the term ``funding gap'' 
means any period of time during fiscal year 2011 for which interim or 
full-year appropriations (other than as provided by this section) for 
the personnel accounts of the Armed Forces for that fiscal year have 
not been enacted.
                                 <all>