[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3237 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3237

 To amend the Pay Our Military Act to provide funds for the operations 
                         of the National Guard.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 2, 2013

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Pay Our Military Act to provide funds for the operations 
                         of the National Guard.

    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 ``Guard Appropriation Restoration 
During Shutdown Act'' or ``GARDS Act''.

SEC. 2. CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS TO COVER NATIONAL GUARD PERSONNEL AND 
              OPERATIONAL COSTS.

    Section 2 of the Pay Our Military Act (HR 3210 of the 113th 
Congress) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(1), by inserting before the semicolon 
        the following: ``or, in the case of members of the National 
        Guard, who perform inactive-duty training or other service 
        during such period for which the members would otherwise be 
        entitled to pay and allowances'';
            (2) in subsection (a)(2), by inserting before the semicolon 
        the following: ``or, without regard to any such determination, 
        are civilian personnel of the National Guard, including 
        military technicians (dual status)''; and
            (3) by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (c) and 
        inserting after subsection (a) the following new subsection:
    ``(b) National Guard Operations.--There are hereby appropriated for 
fiscal year 2014, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, for any period during which interim or full-year 
appropriations for fiscal year 2014 are not in effect, such sums as are 
necessary to provide for the operation and maintenance of the National 
Guard, including necessary sums to prevent any interruption or delay in 
the performance by the National Guard of domestic disaster relief and 
recovery operations.''.
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