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Protecting Gold Star Spouses Act of 2025
To provide interim appropriations for the Coast Guard Retired Servicemans Family Protection and Survivor Benefits Plans for each fiscal year after fiscal year 2024, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill provides automatic interim appropriations for the Coast Guard Retired Serviceman's Family Protection and Survivor Benefits Plans for each fiscal year after 2024, ensuring funding continues for survivor benefits for spouses and families of deceased Coast Guard members. The appropriations continue at the same rate and conditions as the most recent full-year appropriations law until Congress enacts a new appropriations bill specifically for these benefits. If Congress subsequently passes a new appropriations bill for these plans, any funds already spent under this interim authorization are credited to that new appropriation. This prevents a lapse in survivor benefits funding during periods when Congress has not yet completed its annual appropriations process.
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Sponsor (1)
- Rep. Green, Mark E. [R-TN-7] (R-TN)
Actions (2)
- Apr 3, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations. · house
- Apr 3, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
April 3, 2025
Mr. Green of Tennessee introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations
A BILL
To provide interim appropriations for the Coast Guard Retired Servicemans Family Protection and Survivor Benefits Plans for each fiscal year after fiscal year 2024, and for other purposes.
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 “Protecting Gold Star Spouses Act of 2025”.
SEC. 2. INTERIM APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE COAST GUARD RETIRED SERVICEMAN’S FAMILY PROTECTION AND SURVIVOR BENEFITS PLANS.
(a) In General.—There are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for each fiscal year after fiscal year 2024, such sums as necessary for payment of the Coast Guard Retired Serviceman’s Family Protection and Survivor Benefits Plans, as are described in the provision regarding Coast Guard retired pay in title II of division F of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (Public Law 116-260), at a rate for operations and under the terms and conditions provided by the most recent law making full-year appropriations for such Coast Guard Retired Serviceman’s Family Protection and Survivor Benefits Plans.
(b) Effect of Enactment of Subsequent Appropriations.—If an appropriation for such Coast Guard Retired Serviceman’s Family Protection and Survivor Benefits Plans, or a general appropriation bill providing appropriations for the Coast Guard without provision for such Coast Guard Retired Serviceman’s Family Protection and Survivor Benefits Plans, is enacted into law on any date after the date of the enactment of this Act that provides for appropriations during a fiscal year following the expenditure of funds during such fiscal year pursuant to this Act—
(1) such expenditure shall be charged to such appropriation (if any); and
(2) appropriations made available for such fiscal year pursuant to this Act shall not be available after the date of enactment of such appropriation or general appropriation bill. <all>
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