S 387
112th Congress
Senate
Armed Forces and National Security
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Defense
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax exclusion
Military medicine
Military personnel and dependents
National Guard and reserves
A bill to amend title 37, United States Code, to provide flexible spending arrangements for members of uniformed services, and for other purposes.
Introduced: February 17, 2011
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Became law
Feb 17, 2011
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
Feb 17, 2011
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Directs each Secretary of the military department concerned to: (1) establish procedures to implement flexible spending arrangements (FSAs) for military health care and dependent care for active-duty military personnel on a pre-tax basis; and (2) consider life events of members of the Armed Forces that are unique to them, including changes relating to permanent changes of duty station and deployments to overseas contingency operations.
Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to submit to Congress recommendations on the advisability of authorizing FSAs for members of the reserves.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
Committees of jurisdiction
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