[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7237 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7237

To amend title 10, United States Code, to ensure that the final pay and 
 certificate of discharge or release for a reserve member of the Armed 
 Forces is ready upon discharge or release of that member from active 
                                status.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 10, 2018

  Mr. Kelly of Mississippi (for himself and Mr. Walz) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to ensure that the final pay and 
 certificate of discharge or release for a reserve member of the Armed 
 Forces is ready upon discharge or release of that member from active 
                                status.

    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 ``Reserve Component DD-214 Act of 
2018''.

SEC. 2. FINAL PAY AND CERTIFICATE OF DISCHARGE OR RELEASE FOR RESERVE 
              MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES UPON DISCHARGE OR RELEASE 
              FROM ACTIVE STATUS.

    Section 1168 of title 10, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in the heading, by inserting ``or active status'' after 
        ``active duty''; and
            (2) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by inserting ``(1)'' before ``A member'';
                    (B) by striking ``an armed force'' and inserting 
                ``the armed forces (including the reserve 
                components)'';
                    (C) by inserting ``or active status'' after 
                ``active duty'' the first place it appears;
                    (D) by striking ``his discharge certificate or 
                certificate of release from active duty, 
                respectively,'' and inserting ``the appropriate 
                certificate'';
                    (E) by striking ``his final pay or a substantial 
                part of that pay,'' and inserting ``the final pay of 
                the member (or a substantial part of that pay)'';
                    (F) by striking ``him or his next of kin or legal 
                representative'' and inserting ``the member (or the 
                next of kin or legal representative of the member)''; 
                and
                    (G) by adding at the end the following new 
                paragraph (2):
    ``(2) In paragraph (1), the term `appropriate certificate' means 
the following:
            ``(A) In the case of a member being discharged, a discharge 
        certificate.
            ``(B) In the case of a member being released from active 
        duty, a certificate of release from active duty.
            ``(C) In the case of a member being released from active 
        status, a certificate of release from active status.''.
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