Retired Pay Restoration Act
Latest action · Jan 9, 2017 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
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 9, 2017
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Retired Pay Restoration Act
This bill allows the receipt of both military retired pay and veterans' disability compensation with respect to any service-connected disability (under current law, such a disability must be rated as not less than 50% disabling).
The bill makes eligible for the full concurrent receipt of both veterans' disability compensation and either military retired pay or combat-related special pay those individuals who were retired or separated from military service due to a service-connected disability.
Cosponsors 13
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 9, 2017 to Oct 2, 2018; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MT | Jon Tester | Original | Jan 9, 2017 |
| R-MO | Roy Blunt | Jan 17, 2017 | |
| D-NJ | Robert Menendez | Feb 8, 2017 | |
| D-RI | Sheldon Whitehouse | Feb 8, 2017 | |
| D-WI | Tammy Baldwin | Feb 15, 2017 | |
| D-MA | Edward J. Markey | Feb 27, 2017 | |
| D-MI | Debbie Stabenow | Apr 24, 2017 | |
| R-AK | Lisa Murkowski | May 2, 2017 | |
| D-MD | Chris Van Hollen | Aug 3, 2017 | |
| D-MN | Amy Klobuchar | Nov 1, 2017 | |
| R-AR | John Boozman | Nov 30, 2017 | |
| D-DE | Christopher A. Coons | Apr 17, 2018 | |
| D-IL | Tammy Duckworth | Oct 2, 2018 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Armed Services Committee | Referred Jan 9, 2017 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 9, 2017Introduced in Senate
- Jan 9, 2017Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to permit certain retired members of the uniformed services who have a service-connected disability to receive both disability compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs for their disability and either retired pay by reason of their years of military service or Combat-Related Special Compensation, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Retired Pay Restoration 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 9, 2017Introduced in Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
