[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 855 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 855

To make available such funds as may be necessary to ensure that members 
of the Armed Forces, including reserve components thereof, continue to 
receive pay and allowances for active service performed when a funding 
gap caused by the failure to enact interim or full-year appropriations 
   for the Armed Forces occurs, which results in the furlough of non-
 emergency personnel and the curtailment of Government activities and 
                               services.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 14, 2011

 Ms. Stabenow (for herself, Mrs. Hutchison, and Mr. Casey) introduced 
the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee 
                           on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To make available such funds as may be necessary to ensure that members 
of the Armed Forces, including reserve components thereof, continue to 
receive pay and allowances for active service performed when a funding 
gap caused by the failure to enact interim or full-year appropriations 
   for the Armed Forces occurs, which results in the furlough of non-
 emergency personnel and the curtailment of Government activities and 
                               services.

    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 ``Pay Our Troops Act''.

SEC. 2. EMERGENCY FUNDING FOR PAY AND ALLOWANCES FOR MEMBERS OF THE 
              ARMED FORCES DURING FUNDING GAP IMPACTING THE DEPARTMENT 
              OF DEFENSE OR DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY.

    (a) Funds for Military Pay and Allowances.--During a funding gap 
impacting the Armed Forces, the Secretary of the Treasury shall make 
available to the Secretary of Defense (and the Secretary of Homeland 
Security in the case of the Coast Guard), out of any amounts in the 
general fund of the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such amounts 
as the Secretary of Defense (and the Secretary of Homeland Security in 
the case of the Coast Guard) determines to be necessary to continue to 
provide pay and allowances (without interruption) to members of the 
Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, including reserve 
components thereof, who perform active service during the funding gap.
    (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 accounts of the 
Armed Forces for that fiscal year have not been enacted.
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