[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1579 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1579

   To amend title 37, United States Code, to provide that the basic 
 allowance for housing in effect for a member of the National Guard is 
 not reduced when the member transitions between active duty and full-
      time National Guard duty without a break in active service.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 20, 2011

  Mr. Brown of Massachusetts 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 37, United States Code, to provide that the basic 
 allowance for housing in effect for a member of the National Guard is 
 not reduced when the member transitions between active duty and full-
      time National Guard duty without a break in active service.

    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 Basic Allowance for 
Housing Equity Act''.

SEC. 2. NO REDUCTION IN BASIC ALLOWANCE FOR HOUSING FOR ARMY NATIONAL 
              GUARD AND AIR NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERS WHO TRANSITION 
              BETWEEN ACTIVE DUTY AND FULL-TIME NATIONAL GUARD DUTY 
              WITHOUT A BREAK IN ACTIVE SERVICE.

    Section 403(g) of title 37, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(6) The rate of basic allowance for housing to be paid a member 
of the Army National Guard of the United States or the Air National 
Guard of the United States shall not be reduced upon the transition of 
the member from active duty to full-time National Guard duty, or from 
full-time National Guard duty to active duty, when the transition 
occurs without a break in active service.''.
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