HR 58 · 108th Congress 2003–2005, ended

Keep Our Promise to America's Military Retirees Act

Introduced Jan 7, 2003 Originated House Sponsor Chet Edwards D-TX

Latest action · Feb 28, 2003 Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedJan 7, 2003
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Keep Our Promise to America's Military Retirees Act - Includes as an employee, for purposes of Federal provisions authorizing enrollment under the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program: (1) a member of the armed forces who began service before June 7, 1956, and retired after a minimum of 20 years of such service or by reason of a service-connected disability; and (2) the surviving widow or widower of such member.

Directs the Secretary of Defense to enter into an agreement with the Office of Personnel Management to provide FEHB coverage to the following eligible beneficiaries: (1) a member or former member entitled to military retired or retainer pay; (2) an unremarried former spouse who was married to a member for at least 20 years, during which such member performed at least 20 years of retirement-creditable military service; (3) a dependent of a deceased qualifying member or former member; (4) a dependent of a living member or former member; and (5) a family member.

Cosponsors 212

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 13, 2003 to Jul 19, 2004.

Seat	Cosponsor	Signed on
D-NY	Anthony D. Weiner	Feb 13, 2003
D-MA	Barney Frank	Feb 13, 2003
D-CA	Bob Filner	Feb 13, 2003
D-CA	Calvin M. Dooley	Feb 13, 2003
R-MI	Candice S. Miller	Feb 13, 2003
R-MS	Charles W. "Chip" Pickering	Feb 13, 2003
R-GA	Charles W. Norwood	Feb 13, 2003
D-FL	Corrine Brown	Feb 13, 2003
D-CA	Dennis A. Cardoza	Feb 13, 2003
R-KY	Ed Whitfield	Feb 13, 2003
D-NY	Edolphus Towns	Feb 13, 2003
D-NY	Gary L. Ackerman	Feb 13, 2003
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano	Feb 13, 2003
D-MA	James P. McGovern	Feb 13, 2003
D-WA	Jay Inslee	Feb 13, 2003
R-FL	Jeff Miller	Feb 13, 2003
R-NV	Jim Gibbons	Feb 13, 2003
D-GA	Jim Marshall	Feb 13, 2003
D-TX	Jim Turner	Feb 13, 2003
D-MI	John D. Dingell	Feb 13, 2003
R-FL	John L. Mica	Feb 13, 2003
D-GA	John Lewis	Feb 13, 2003
R-TX	Kay Granger	Feb 13, 2003
R-FL	Lincoln Diaz-Balart	Feb 13, 2003
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard	Feb 13, 2003
D-CA	Lynn C. Woolsey	Feb 13, 2003
R-FL	Mark Foley	Feb 13, 2003
D-TX	Martin Frost	Feb 13, 2003
D-MA	Martin T. Meehan	Feb 13, 2003
D-NC	Mike McIntyre	Feb 13, 2003
R-OH	Paul E. Gillmor	Feb 13, 2003
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio	Feb 13, 2003
R-TX	Ron Paul	Feb 13, 2003
R-IA	Steve King	Feb 13, 2003
R-OH	Steven C. LaTourette	Feb 13, 2003
D-PA	Tim Holden	Feb 13, 2003
R-IL	Timothy V. Johnson	Feb 13, 2003
R-VA	Virgil H. Goode Jr.	Feb 13, 2003
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff	Feb 25, 2003
D-WA	Adam Smith	Feb 25, 2003
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings	Feb 25, 2003
D-FL	Allen Boyd	Feb 25, 2003
R-ID	C. L. (Butch) Otter	Feb 25, 2003
D-NY	Carolyn McCarthy	Feb 25, 2003
D-TX	Chris Bell	Feb 25, 2003
D-MI	Dale E. Kildee	Feb 25, 2003
R-LA	David Vitter	Feb 25, 2003
D-KS	Dennis Moore	Feb 25, 2003
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton	Feb 25, 2003
D-AS	Eni F. H. Faleomavaega	Feb 25, 2003
R-NJ	Frank A. LoBiondo	Feb 25, 2003
D-MS	Gene Taylor	Feb 25, 2003
D-VA	James P. Moran	Feb 25, 2003
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky	Feb 25, 2003
R-CO	Joel Hefley	Feb 25, 2003
R-CA	Ken Calvert	Feb 25, 2003
D-IL	Lane Evans	Feb 25, 2003
D-AR	Marion Berry	Feb 25, 2003
D-TX	Max Sandlin	Feb 25, 2003
R-MI	Mike Rogers	Feb 25, 2003
D-WV	Nick J. Rahall II	Feb 25, 2003
R-GA	Phil Gingrey	Feb 25, 2003
D-AL	Robert E. (Bud) Cramer Jr.	Feb 25, 2003
D-FL	Robert Wexler	Feb 25, 2003
R-KY	Ron Lewis	Feb 25, 2003
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro	Feb 25, 2003
D-OH	Sherrod Brown	Feb 25, 2003
D-OH	Stephanie Tubbs Jones	Feb 25, 2003
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch	Feb 25, 2003
D-WI	Tammy Baldwin	Feb 25, 2003
D-OH	Ted Strickland	Feb 25, 2003
R-CO	Thomas G. Tancredo	Feb 25, 2003
R-PA	Todd Russell Platts	Feb 25, 2003
D-NM	Tom Udall	Feb 25, 2003
R-NY	Vito Fossella	Feb 25, 2003
R-TN	Zach Wamp	Feb 25, 2003
D-OR	David Wu	Feb 27, 2003
R-CA	Elton Gallegly	Feb 27, 2003
R-VA	J. Randy Forbes	Feb 27, 2003
D-MN	James L. Oberstar	Feb 27, 2003
D-MA	John W. Olver	Feb 27, 2003
R-NE	Lee Terry	Feb 27, 2003
R-IN	Mark E. Souder	Feb 27, 2003
R-CA	Mary Bono	Feb 27, 2003
R-FL	Michael Bilirakis	Feb 27, 2003
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle	Feb 27, 2003
R-IL	Ray LaHood	Feb 27, 2003
D-MA	Richard E. Neal	Feb 27, 2003
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren	Feb 27, 2003
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo	Mar 5, 2003
I-VT	Bernard Sanders	Mar 5, 2003
D-OK	Brad Carson	Mar 5, 2003
D-TX	Charles A. Gonzalez	Mar 5, 2003
R-NH	Charles F. Bass	Mar 5, 2003
D-TX	Ciro D. Rodriguez	Mar 5, 2003
R-GA	Jack Kingston	Mar 5, 2003
D-MI	John Conyers, Jr.	Mar 5, 2003
R-NY	John E. Sweeney	Mar 5, 2003
D-IN	Julia Carson	Mar 5, 2003
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez	Mar 5, 2003
D-CA	Loretta Sanchez	Mar 5, 2003
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter	Mar 5, 2003
R-PA	Melissa A. Hart	Mar 5, 2003
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano	Mar 5, 2003
D-CA	Mike Thompson	Mar 5, 2003
D-NY	Nita M. Lowey	Mar 5, 2003
R-TX	Ralph M. Hall	Mar 5, 2003
D-NJ	Robert Menendez	Mar 5, 2003
D-ME	Thomas H. Allen	Mar 5, 2003
D-CA	Tom Lantos	Mar 5, 2003
R-MI	Dave Camp	Mar 11, 2003
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson	Mar 11, 2003
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler	Mar 11, 2003
R-NV	Jon C. Porter	Mar 11, 2003
D-ME	Michael H. Michaud	Mar 11, 2003
D-PA	Paul E. Kanjorski	Mar 11, 2003
D-CA	Robert T. Matsui	Mar 11, 2003
R-OH	Robert W. Ney	Mar 11, 2003
D-WI	Ron Kind	Mar 11, 2003
D-CA	Sam Farr	Mar 11, 2003
D-CO	Diana DeGette	Mar 13, 2003
D-CA	Hilda L. Solis	Mar 13, 2003
D-CA	Howard L. Berman	Mar 13, 2003
D-IL	William O. Lipinski	Mar 13, 2003
R-VA	Bob Goodlatte	Mar 19, 2003
R-AZ	Jeff Flake	Mar 19, 2003
D-KY	Ken Lucas	Mar 19, 2003
D-TX	Lloyd Doggett	Mar 19, 2003
D-CA	Michael M. Honda	Mar 19, 2003
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva	Mar 19, 2003
D-VA	Rick Boucher	Mar 19, 2003
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.	Mar 19, 2003
D-OH	Tim Ryan	Mar 19, 2003
D-MD	Chris Van Hollen	Mar 26, 2003
D-NC	David E. Price	Mar 26, 2003
R-IL	Donald A. Manzullo	Mar 26, 2003
D-CA	Henry A. Waxman	Mar 26, 2003
R-OH	Michael R. Turner	Mar 26, 2003
D-TX	Nick Lampson	Mar 26, 2003
R-FL	Ric Keller	Mar 26, 2003
D-NV	Shelley Berkley	Mar 26, 2003
D-NY	Timothy H. Bishop	Mar 26, 2003
D-PA	Chaka Fattah	Apr 2, 2003
R-VA	Jo Ann Davis	Apr 2, 2003
D-PA	Joseph M. Hoeffel	Apr 2, 2003
D-IA	Leonard L. Boswell	Apr 2, 2003
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur	Apr 2, 2003
R-NC	Robin Hayes	Apr 2, 2003
R-AR	John Boozman	Apr 9, 2003
D-NC	Melvin L. Watt	Apr 9, 2003
R-TX	Michael C. Burgess	Apr 9, 2003
D-TN	Bart Gordon	Apr 29, 2003
R-FL	Cliff Stearns	Apr 29, 2003
R-TN	John J. Duncan, Jr.	Apr 29, 2003
D-WA	Norman D. Dicks	Apr 29, 2003
D-RI	Patrick J. Kennedy	Apr 29, 2003
D-NJ	Steven R. Rothman	Apr 29, 2003
R-TN	William L. Jenkins	Apr 29, 2003
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.	May 6, 2003
D-OR	Darlene Hooley	May 6, 2003
R-OR	Greg Walden	May 6, 2003
D-CT	John B. Larson	May 6, 2003
D-CO	Mark Udall	May 6, 2003
R-NH	Jeb Bradley	May 9, 2003
R-NJ	Jim Saxton	May 9, 2003
R-MN	John Kline	May 9, 2003
D-CA	Brad Sherman	Jun 2, 2003
D-MI	Carolyn C. Kilpatrick	Jun 2, 2003
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel	Jun 2, 2003
R-SC	Joe Wilson	Jun 2, 2003
R-NC	Walter B. Jones	Jun 2, 2003
D-NJ	Rush Holt	Jun 4, 2003
D-TX	Silvestre Reyes	Jun 4, 2003
R-NY	Sue W. Kelly	Jun 4, 2003
R-SC	J. Gresham Barrett	Jun 9, 2003
D-CA	Joe Baca	Jun 9, 2003
R-GA	Max Burns	Jun 9, 2003
D-NY	Steve Israel	Jun 9, 2003
D-GA	David Scott	Jun 16, 2003
R-MT	Denny Rehberg	Jun 16, 2003
R-KS	Jerry Moran	Jun 16, 2003
R-MS	Roger F. Wicker	Jun 16, 2003
D-TX	Gene Green	Jun 18, 2003
D-CA	George Miller	Jun 18, 2003
D-CA	Susan A. Davis	Jun 18, 2003
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings	Jun 25, 2003
R-KY	Ernie Fletcher	Jun 25, 2003
D-NJ	Robert E. Andrews	Jun 25, 2003
D-HI	Ed Case	Jul 10, 2003
R-NC	Richard Burr	Jul 10, 2003
D-IL	Danny K. Davis	Jul 22, 2003
D-NC	Brad Miller	Sep 3, 2003
D-MA	John F. Tierney	Sep 3, 2003
R-IL	Judy Biggert	Sep 3, 2003
D-MN	Collin C. Peterson	Sep 5, 2003
D-WA	Jim McDermott	Sep 5, 2003
D-AR	Mike Ross	Sep 5, 2003
R-GA	Nathan Deal	Sep 23, 2003
D-FL	Peter Deutsch	Sep 23, 2003
D-CA	Lois Capps	Nov 7, 2003
R-IL	John Shimkus	Nov 20, 2003
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez	Nov 20, 2003
R-ID	Michael K. Simpson	Nov 20, 2003
D-CA	Maxine Waters	Dec 8, 2003
D-WA	Rick Larsen	Dec 8, 2003
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne	Jan 21, 2004
R-WV	Shelley Moore Capito	Jan 21, 2004
D-TX	Charles W. Stenholm	Mar 10, 2004
D-NC	Frank W. Ballance Jr.	May 4, 2004
R-OK	Ernest J. Istook Jr.	Jun 18, 2004
R-PA	Jim Gerlach	Jul 13, 2004
D-NY	Maurice D. Hinchey	Jul 19, 2004

Committees 2

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Oversight and Government Reform Committee	Referred Jan 7, 2003
	Civil Service and Agency Organization Subcommittee	Referred Feb 28, 2003
House	Armed Services Committee	Referred Jan 7, 2003
	Total Force Subcommittee	Referred Feb 3, 2003

Actions 5

Everything that happened, newest first.

Feb 28, 2003Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization.
Feb 3, 2003Referred to the Subcommittee on Total Force.
Feb 3, 2003Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
Jan 7, 2003Introduced in House
Jan 7, 2003Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To restore health care coverage to retired members of the uniformed services.
Short Titles as Introduced: Keep Our Promise to America's Military Retirees Act

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Jan 7, 2003Introduced in House

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