HR 558 · 109th Congress 2005–2007, ended

Guard and Reserve Readiness and Retention Act of 2005

Introduced Feb 2, 2005 Originated House Sponsor Tom Latham R-IA

Latest action · Mar 14, 2005 Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.

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.

IntroducedFeb 2, 2005
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Guard and Reserve Readiness and Retention Act of 2005 - Makes an individual eligible for retired pay for non-regular (reserve) military service if such individual: (1) satisfies one of specified combinations of minimum age (between 53 and 60) and years of service (between 20 and 34); (2) performed the last six years of qualifying service in currently authorized categories of military service, but not while a member of a regular component, the Fleet Reserve, or the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve; and (3) is not entitled to any other retirement pay from an armed force or as a member of the Fleet Reserve or Fleet Marine Corps Reserve.

Authorizes a member of the Selected Reserve to enroll for self or self and family coverage under the TRICARE program (a Department of Defense managed health care program).

Cosponsors 139

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 2, 2005 to Jun 28, 2006; 23 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-TN	Bart Gordon	Original	Feb 2, 2005
D-MI	Bart Stupak	Original	Feb 2, 2005
D-NY	Carolyn McCarthy	Original	Feb 2, 2005
R-GA	Charles W. Norwood	Original	Feb 2, 2005
R-UT	Chris Cannon	Original	Feb 2, 2005
R-FL	E. Clay Shaw Jr.	Original	Feb 2, 2005
D-MS	Gene Taylor	Original	Feb 2, 2005
D-TN	Harold E. Ford Jr.	Original	Feb 2, 2005
D-MA	James P. McGovern	Original	Feb 2, 2005
R-SC	Joe Wilson	Original	Feb 2, 2005
R-MI	John J.H. "Joe" Schwarz	Original	Feb 2, 2005
R-WI	Mark Green	Original	Feb 2, 2005
R-ID	Michael K. Simpson	Original	Feb 2, 2005
D-AR	Mike Ross	Original	Feb 2, 2005
R-LA	Richard H. Baker	Original	Feb 2, 2005
D-VA	Rick Boucher	Original	Feb 2, 2005
D-WI	Ron Kind	Original	Feb 2, 2005
R-MD	Roscoe G. Bartlett	Original	Feb 2, 2005
R-MO	Roy Blunt	Original	Feb 2, 2005
R-WV	Shelley Moore Capito	Original	Feb 2, 2005
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch	Original	Feb 2, 2005
R-MI	Thaddeus G. McCotter	Original	Feb 2, 2005
R-VA	Virgil H. Goode Jr.	Original	Feb 2, 2005
D-MA	Barney Frank		Feb 10, 2005
D-CA	Lois Capps		Feb 10, 2005
D-SD	Stephanie Herseth Sandlin		Feb 10, 2005
R-PA	Todd Russell Platts		Feb 10, 2005
R-IN	Mark E. Souder		Feb 15, 2005
R-PA	Melissa A. Hart		Feb 15, 2005
R-NH	Charles F. Bass		Feb 17, 2005
D-GA	David Scott		Feb 17, 2005
D-HI	Ed Case		Feb 17, 2005
D-AZ	Ed Pastor		Feb 17, 2005
D-MD	Chris Van Hollen		Mar 2, 2005
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings		Mar 2, 2005
D-IA	Leonard L. Boswell		Mar 2, 2005
D-ME	Michael H. Michaud		Mar 2, 2005
D-PA	Robert A. Brady		Mar 2, 2005
D-PA	Tim Holden		Mar 2, 2005
D-OH	Tim Ryan		Mar 2, 2005
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		Mar 3, 2005
D-NC	Mike McIntyre		Mar 3, 2005
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.		Mar 8, 2005
R-NE	Lee Terry		Mar 8, 2005
D-WV	Nick J. Rahall II		Mar 8, 2005
R-UT	Rob Bishop		Mar 8, 2005
D-MN	Betty McCollum		Mar 10, 2005
R-VA	Frank R. Wolf		Mar 15, 2005
R-NJ	Jim Saxton		Mar 15, 2005
R-FL	Mark Foley		Mar 15, 2005
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne		Apr 5, 2005
D-MN	James L. Oberstar		Apr 5, 2005
R-FL	Lincoln Diaz-Balart		Apr 5, 2005
D-CA	Michael M. Honda		Apr 5, 2005
R-NJ	Mike Ferguson		Apr 5, 2005
D-NJ	Robert E. Andrews		Apr 5, 2005
D-NJ	Robert Menendez		Apr 5, 2005
D-NJ	Rush Holt		Apr 5, 2005
D-AR	Marion Berry		Apr 6, 2005
R-NJ	Christopher H. Smith		Apr 12, 2005
R-NH	Jeb Bradley		Apr 12, 2005
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		Apr 12, 2005
D-TX	Silvestre Reyes		Apr 12, 2005
D-CA	Dennis A. Cardoza		Apr 13, 2005
D-IL	Danny K. Davis		Apr 14, 2005
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva		Apr 14, 2005
D-MI	Dale E. Kildee		Apr 20, 2005
D-GU	Madeleine Z. Bordallo		Apr 20, 2005
D-NY	Steve Israel		Apr 20, 2005
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel		Apr 26, 2005
D-LA	Charlie Melancon		Apr 26, 2005
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		Apr 26, 2005
R-IL	Ray LaHood		Apr 26, 2005
D-CA	Sam Farr		Apr 26, 2005
R-TN	Zach Wamp		Apr 28, 2005
R-LA	Bobby Jindal		May 3, 2005
D-OR	Darlene Hooley		May 3, 2005
D-NC	G. K. Butterfield		May 3, 2005
R-FL	Ginny Brown-Waite		May 3, 2005
D-NV	Shelley Berkley		May 3, 2005
R-NE	Tom Osborne		May 3, 2005
I-VT	Bernard Sanders		May 5, 2005
R-LA	Charles W. Boustany, Jr.		May 5, 2005
R-KS	Jerry Moran		May 5, 2005
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		May 10, 2005
D-NC	Bob Etheridge		May 10, 2005
R-IA	Steve King		May 10, 2005
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		May 10, 2005
D-WI	Tammy Baldwin		May 12, 2005
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		May 16, 2005
D-FL	Jim Davis		May 16, 2005
D-WA	Rick Larsen		May 16, 2005
D-VA	James P. Moran		May 17, 2005
D-TX	Charles A. Gonzalez		May 18, 2005
R-FL	Katherine Harris		May 18, 2005
D-OH	Ted Strickland		May 24, 2005
R-NJ	Frank A. LoBiondo		May 25, 2005
D-TN	Jim Cooper		May 26, 2005
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur		Jun 7, 2005
D-WA	Adam Smith		Jun 9, 2005
R-CO	Bob Beauprez		Jun 9, 2005
D-MO	Emanuel Cleaver		Jun 9, 2005
R-FL	Michael Bilirakis		Jun 9, 2005
D-OH	Stephanie Tubbs Jones		Jun 9, 2005
R-MS	Charles W. "Chip" Pickering		Jun 21, 2005
D-GA	John Barrow		Jun 29, 2005
D-NJ	Steven R. Rothman		Jun 29, 2005
D-TX	Chet Edwards		Jun 30, 2005
R-PA	Jim Gerlach		Jun 30, 2005
D-IL	Lane Evans		Jul 11, 2005
D-PA	Paul E. Kanjorski		Jul 11, 2005
D-NC	Brad Miller		Jul 19, 2005
D-NC	David E. Price		Sep 6, 2005
R-CA	Ken Calvert		Sep 6, 2005
D-IL	Rahm Emanuel		Sep 6, 2005
D-FL	Corrine Brown		Sep 21, 2005
D-PA	Allyson Y. Schwartz		Sep 22, 2005
R-PA	Phil English		Oct 18, 2005
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		Oct 20, 2005
D-NY	Timothy H. Bishop		Oct 26, 2005
R-TX	Kay Granger		Nov 8, 2005
D-NY	Brian Higgins		Dec 6, 2005
D-KS	Dennis Moore		Dec 6, 2005
D-CA	George Miller		Dec 6, 2005
D-MI	John Conyers, Jr.		Dec 6, 2005
D-MA	John F. Tierney		Dec 6, 2005
D-CO	Mark Udall		Dec 6, 2005
D-MA	Martin T. Meehan		Dec 6, 2005
D-TX	Gene Green		Dec 8, 2005
D-IL	Daniel Lipinski		Jan 31, 2006
R-CA	Elton Gallegly		Mar 8, 2006
D-CA	Bob Filner		Apr 25, 2006
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui		May 22, 2006
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger		May 23, 2006
D-MN	Collin C. Peterson		May 24, 2006
R-AR	John Boozman		Jun 6, 2006
R-LA	Rodney Alexander		Jun 6, 2006
D-CA	Susan A. Davis		Jun 6, 2006
R-OK	Ernest J. Istook Jr.		Jun 28, 2006

Committees 1

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

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Armed Services Committee	Referred Feb 2, 2005
	Military Personnel Subcommittee	Referred Mar 14, 2005

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

Mar 14, 2005Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
Mar 14, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
Feb 2, 2005Introduced in House
Feb 2, 2005Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 337	Guard and Reserve Readiness and Retention Act of 2005	Related bill	Feb 9, 2005

Titles 2

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

Official Title as Introduced: To amend title 10, United States Code, to revise the age and service requirements for eligibility to receive retired pay for non-regular service; to expand certain authorities to provide health care benefits for Reserves and their families, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: Guard and Reserve Readiness and Retention Act of 2005

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Feb 2, 2005Introduced in House

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