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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 See on congress.gov
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Feb 17, 2011
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
Feb 17, 2011
Introduced in Senate
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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 February 17, 2011

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.

 Related & companion bills 1
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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 7
All 7 Democratic 5 Republican 2
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Warner, Mark R.
Virginia · Sep 8, 2011
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Shaheen, Jeanne
New Hampshire · Aug 2, 2011
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Coons, Christopher A.
Delaware · Jul 29, 2011
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Moran, Jerry
Kansas · Jul 28, 2011
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Blumenthal, Richard
Connecticut · Jul 19, 2011
 R
Murkowski, Lisa
Alaska · Mar 14, 2011
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Gillibrand, Kirsten E.
New York · Feb 17, 2011
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 387: A bill to amend title 37, United States Code, to provide flexible spending arrangements for members of uniformed services, and for other purposes.. 112th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/112-S-387/
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"S. 387: A bill to amend title 37, United States Code, to provide flexible spending arrangements for members of uniformed services, and for other purposes.." 112th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/112-S-387/.
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S. 387, 112th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/112-S-387/.
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