[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 774 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 774

To appropriate funds for pay and allowances and support for members of 
   the Armed Forces, their families, and other personnel critical to 
                national security during a funding gap.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 8, 2011

  Mr. Baucus introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
              referred to the Committee on Appropriations

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                                 A BILL


 
To appropriate funds for pay and allowances and support for members of 
   the Armed Forces, their families, and other personnel critical to 
                national security during a funding gap.

    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 ``Enduring Support for Defenders of 
Freedom and Their Families Act''.

SEC. 2. APPROPRIATIONS FOR PAY AND ALLOWANCES AND SUPPORT FOR MEMBERS 
              OF THE ARMED FORCES, THEIR FAMILIES, AND CERTAIN OTHER 
              PERSONNEL CRITICAL TO NATIONAL SECURITY DURING A FUNDING 
              GAP.

    (a) In General.--During a funding gap impacting the Armed Forces 
and the Department of Homeland Security, the Secretary of the Treasury 
shall make available to the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of 
Homeland Security, out of any amounts in the general fund of the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, amounts as follows:
            (1) Such amounts as the Secretary of Defense and the 
        Secretary of Homeland Security determine to be necessary to 
        continue to provide pay and allowances (without interruption) 
        to the following:
                    (A) Members and dependents of the Army, the Navy, 
                the Air Force, the Marine Corps, the Coast Guard, 
                including reserve components thereof, and the U.S. 
                Customs and Border Protection, who perform active 
                service during the funding gap.
                    (B) At the discretion of the Secretary of Defense 
                and the Secretary of Homeland Security, such civilian 
                personnel of the Department of Defense and the 
                Department of Homeland Security who are providing 
                support to the personnel referred to in paragraph (1) 
                as the Secretaries consider appropriate.
                    (C) At the discretion of the Secretary of Defense 
                and the Secretary of Homeland Security, such personnel 
                of contractors of the Department of Defense and the 
                Department of Homeland Security who are providing 
                direct support to the personnel referred to in 
                paragraph (1) as the Secretaries consider appropriate.
            (2) At the discretion of the Secretary of Defense and the 
        Secretary Homeland Security, such amounts as the Secretaries 
        determine to be necessary to continue carrying out programs 
        (and the pay and allowances of personnel carrying out such 
        programs) that provide direct support to the members of the 
        Armed Forces and the Department of Homeland Security, including 
        programs as follows:
                    (A) Programs for the support of families, including 
                child care and family support services.
                    (B) Such programs of the Department of Defense for 
                the provision of medical treatment as the Secretary of 
                Defense considers appropriate, including programs for 
                the provision of rehabilitative services and counseling 
                for combat injuries (including, but not limited to, 
                Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic 
                Brain Injury (TBI)).
    (b) Funding Gap Defined.--In this section, the term ``funding gap'' 
means any period of time after the beginning of a fiscal year for which 
interim or full-year appropriations for the personnel and other 
applicable accounts of the Armed Forces and the Department of Homeland 
Security for that fiscal year have not been enacted.
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