[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 171 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 171

To appropriate such funds as may be necessary to ensure that members of 
the Armed Forces, including reserve components thereof, and supporting 
     civilian and contractor personnel continue to receive pay and 
allowances for active service performed when a Governmentwide shutdown 
                                occurs.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 29, 2013

  Mr. Udall of Colorado (for himself, Mr. Moran, and Mr. Udall of New 
    Mexico) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
              referred to the Committee on Appropriations

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                                 A BILL


 
To appropriate such funds as may be necessary to ensure that members of 
the Armed Forces, including reserve components thereof, and supporting 
     civilian and contractor personnel continue to receive pay and 
allowances for active service performed when a Governmentwide shutdown 
                                occurs.

    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 ``Military Pay Continuation Act of 
2013''.

SEC. 2. EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS TO PROVIDE PAY AND ALLOWANCES 
              FOR MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES AND SUPPORTING CIVILIAN 
              AND CONTRACTOR PERSONNEL DURING GOVERNMENTWIDE SHUTDOWN.

    During a Governmentwide shutdown, 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 the 
following:
            (1) Members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and 
        Coast Guard, including reserve components thereof, who perform 
        active service during the funding gap.
            (2) At the discretion of the Secretary of Defense, such 
        civilian personnel of the Department of Defense who are 
        providing support to the members of the Armed Forces described 
        in paragraph (1) as the Secretary considers appropriate.
            (3) At the discretion of the Secretary of Defense, such 
        personnel of contractors of the Department of Defense who are 
        providing direct support to the members of the Armed Forces 
        described in paragraph (1) as the Secretary considers 
        appropriate.

SEC. 3. GOVERNMENTWIDE SHUTDOWN DEFINED.

    In this Act, the term ``Governmentwide shutdown'' means any portion 
of a fiscal year during which none of the appropriation bills for the 
fiscal year have become law and an Act or joint resolution making 
continuing appropriations for the fiscal year is not in effect.
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