I 112th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1494 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.

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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.