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S. 1543 113th Congress Senate

Ensuring Pay for Our Military Act

Official title: A bill to appropriate such funds as may be necessary to ensure that members of the Armed Forces, including reserve components thereof, and supporting civilian … Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to appropriate such funds as may be necessary to ensure that members of the Armed Forces, including reserve components thereof, and supporting civilian and contractor personnel continue to receive pay and allowances for active service performed when a funding gap caused by the failure to enact interim or full-year appropriations for the Armed Forces occurs, which results in the furlough of non-emergency personnel and the curtailment of Government activities and services.

Introduced: September 24, 2013 See on congress.gov
Armed Forces and National Security AppropriationsCoast guardDefense spendingDepartment of Defense
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Department of Homeland SecurityExecutive agency funding and structureGovernment employee pay, benefits, personnel managementMilitary personnel and dependentsMilitary procurement, research, weapons developmentNational Guard and reservesPublic contracts and procurement
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Sep 24, 2013
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
Sep 24, 2013
Introduced in Senate
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 Latest action September 24, 2013

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Ensuring Pay for Our Military Act - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, during a funding gap impacting the Armed Forces, to make available to the Secretary of Defense (DOD), and the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) in the case of the Coast Guard, out of any amounts in the general fund of the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such amounts as necessary to continue to provide pay and allowances to members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, including reserve components, who perform active service during the funding gap. Allows for the provision of such pay and allowances, at the discretion of the DOD Secretary, to: (1) DOD civilian personnel providing support to such members, and (2) DOD contractor personnel providing direct support to such members.

Defines "funding gap" as any period after the beginning of a fiscal year for which interim or full-year appropriations for the personnel accounts of the Armed Forces for that fiscal year have not been enacted.

 Related & companion bills 3
  • HR 3187 Military Pay Protection Act of 2013
  • S 171 Military Pay Continuation Act of 2013
  • S 1541 Military Pay Protection Act of 2013
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1543: Ensuring Pay for Our Military Act. 113th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/113-S-1543/
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