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To ensure continuity of pay and allowances for members of the Armed Forces in the event of a lapse in appropriations.
Summary
This bill ensures that members of the Armed Forces continue to receive pay and allowances during any lapse in federal appropriations for fiscal year 2025. The bill makes continuing appropriations available to pay active duty and reserve members who perform active service or inactive-duty training during such periods, as well as civilian Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors whom the Secretary determines are providing direct support to armed forces members. The appropriations remain in effect until whichever occurs first: enactment of a regular or continuing appropriation, enactment of an appropriations resolution without funding for this purpose, or January 1, 2026. The bill uses standard definitions from federal law for the Armed Forces, active service, and reserve components.
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- Mar 10, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations. · house
- Mar 10, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 10, 2025
Mrs. Sykes (for herself and Mr. Bacon) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations
A BILL
To ensure continuity of pay and allowances for members of the Armed Forces in the event of a lapse in appropriations.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Pay Our Military Act”.
SEC. 2. CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS FOR PAY AND ALLOWANCES FOR MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES.
(a) In General.—There are hereby appropriated for fiscal year 2025, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for any period during which interim or full-year appropriations for fiscal year 2025 are not in effect, such sums as are necessary to provide pay and allowances to—
(1) members of the Armed Forces, including the reserve components thereof, who perform active service or inactive-duty training during such period;
(2) civilian employees of the Department of Defense (and the Department of Homeland Security in the case of the Coast Guard when the Coast Guard is not operating as a service in the Department of the Navy) whom the Secretary concerned determines are providing support to members of the Armed Forces described in paragraph (1); and
(3) contractors of the Department of Defense (and the Department of Homeland Security in the case of the Coast Guard when the Coast Guard is not operating as a service in the Department of the Navy) whom the Secretary concerned determines are providing support to members of the Armed Forces described in paragraph (1).
(b) Termination.—Appropriations and funds made available and authority granted pursuant to this Act shall be available until the first of the following occurs:
(1) The enactment into law of an appropriation (including a continuing appropriation) for any purpose for which amounts are made available in subsection (a).
(2) The enactment into law of the applicable regular or continuing appropriations resolution or other Act without any appropriation for such purpose.
(3) January 1, 2026.
(c) Definitions.—In this section:
(1) The terms “active service”, “Armed Forces”, and “inactive-duty training” have the meanings given such terms in section 101 of title 10, United States Code.
(2) The term “reserve components” means the components named in section 10101 of title 10, United States Code.
(3) The term “Secretary concerned” means—
(A) the Secretary of Defense with respect to the Department of Defense; and
(B) the Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to matters concerning the Coast Guard when the Coast Guard is not operating as a service in the Department of the Navy. <all>
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