HR 1384 115th Congress House Armed Forces and National Security Disability and paralysis Disaster relief and insurance Higher education Military civil functions Military medicine Military operations and strategy Military personnel and dependents National Guard and reserves Student aid and college costs Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Reserve Component Benefits Parity Act

Introduced: March 7, 2017 See on congress.gov

Everywhere this bill has been 6 steps

Introduced

In committee

Reported out

Passed House

Passed Senate

To President

Became law

Apr 5, 2017

Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.

Mar 30, 2017

Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Discharged.

Mar 17, 2017

Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.

Mar 9, 2017

Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.

Mar 7, 2017

Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs, and Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Mar 7, 2017

Introduced in House

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Reserve Component Benefits Parity Act

This bill makes reserve component members who are deployed to support pre planned operations of a combatant command eligible for: (1) pre-mobilization health care, (2) transitional health care, (3) consideration of active duty service to reduce the age for retired pay, (4) the high-deployment allowance for lengthy or numerous deployments and frequent mobilizations, (5) Post-9/11 educational assistance, and (6) non-reduction in pay while serving in the uniformed services or National Guard.

The bill makes reserve component members who are deployed in response to a major disaster or emergency eligible for Post-9/11 educational assistance.

The bill makes all such reserve component members eligible for extension of the time limitation during deployment with respect to: (1) educational assistance, and (2) training and rehabilitation assistance for veterans with service-connected disabilities.

What's happening now April 5, 2017

Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.

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