[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3352 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3352

To amend the Honoring the Families of Fallen Soldiers Act to provide a 
 permanent appropriation of funds for the payment of death gratuities 
and related benefits for survivors of deceased military service members 
        in event of any future period of lapsed appropriations.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 28, 2013

  Mr. Connolly (for himself and Mr. Rooney) introduced the following 
      bill; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Honoring the Families of Fallen Soldiers Act to provide a 
 permanent appropriation of funds for the payment of death gratuities 
and related benefits for survivors of deceased military service members 
        in event of any future period of lapsed appropriations.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PERMANENT APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS FOR PAYMENT OF DEATH 
              GRATUITIES AND RELATED BENEFITS FOR SURVIVORS OF DECEASED 
              MILITARY SERVICE MEMBERS IN EVENT OF A PERIOD OF LAPSED 
              APPROPRIATIONS.

    (a) Appropriation.--The Department of Defense Survivor Benefits 
Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2014 (also known as the Honoring 
the Families of Fallen Soldiers Act; Public Law 113-44) is amended--
            (1) in the matter preceding section 101, by inserting after 
        ``fiscal year 2014'' the following: ``and subsequent fiscal 
        years whenever there is a period of lapsed appropriations''; 
        and
            (2) in section 101, by adding at the end the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(c)(1) During any subsequent period of lapsed appropriations 
during a fiscal year, such amounts as may be necessary, at a rate for 
operations as provided for the most recent fiscal year for which an Act 
making appropriations for the Department of Defense has been enacted 
and under the authority and conditions provided in such Act, for 
`Operation and Maintenance' and `Military Personnel' accounts for the 
purpose of making the payments described in paragraphs (1) through (4) 
of subsection (a) during the period of lapsed appropriations.
    ``(2) In paragraph (1) and section 103, the term `period of lapsed 
appropriations' means any period of time after the start of a fiscal 
year for which interim (other than pursuant to subsection (a) or 
paragraph (1)) or full-year appropriations for the accounts referred to 
in paragraph (1) are not in effect.''.
    (b) Duration.--Section 103 of the Department of Defense Survivor 
Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2014 (also known as the 
Honoring the Families of Fallen Soldiers Act; Public Law 113-44) is 
amended to read as follows:
    ``Sec. 103.  Appropriations and funds made available and authority 
granted pursuant to this joint resolution shall be available whenever 
there is a period of lapsed appropriations for the duration of the 
period of lapsed appropriations.''.
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