[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2913 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2913

   To amend titles 10 and 38, United States Code, to provide certain 
    benefits in connection with service in the Selected Reserve for 
preplanned missions in support of the combatant commands, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 10, 2016

 Mr. Franken (for himself and Ms. Klobuchar) introduced the following 
   bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed 
                                Services

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend titles 10 and 38, United States Code, to provide certain 
    benefits in connection with service in the Selected Reserve for 
preplanned missions in support of the combatant commands, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``National Guard 12304b Benefits 
Parity Act''.

SEC. 2. CERTAIN BENEFITS IN CONNECTION WITH SERVICE IN THE SELECTED 
              RESERVE FOR PREPLANNED MISSIONS IN SUPPORT OF COMBATANT 
              COMMANDS.

    (a) TRICARE Benefits Before Deployment.--Section 1074(d)(2) of 
title 10, United States Code, is amended by inserting ``, or under 
section 12304b of this title,'' after ``section 101(a)(13)(B) of this 
title''.
    (b) Transitional Health Benefits Following Demobilization.--Section 
1145(a)(2) of such title is amended by adding at the end the following 
new subparagraph:
            ``(G) A member who is separated from active duty after a 
        period on active duty in excess of 30 days under an order to 
        active duty under section 12304a or 12304b of this title.''.
    (c) Reduced Eligibility Age for Receipt of Non-Regular Service 
Retired Pay.--Section 12731(f)(2)(B) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating clauses (iii) and (iv) as clauses (iv) 
        and (v), respectively;
            (2) by inserting after clause (ii) the following new clause 
        (iii):
    ``(iii) Service on active duty described in this subparagraph is 
also service on active duty after the date of the enactment of this 
clause under an order to active duty under section 12304b of this 
title.''; and
            (3) in clause (iv), as redesignated by paragraph (1), by 
        inserting ``or (iii)'' after ``or in clause (ii)''.
    (d) Post-9/11 Educational Assistance.--Section 3301(1)(B) of title 
38, United States Code, is amended by striking ``12302, or 12304'' and 
inserting ``12302, 12304, or 12304b''.
    (e) Retroactive Effective Date.--The amendments made by this 
section shall take effect on December 31, 2011.
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