A bill to remove a condition preventing authority for concurrent receipt of military retired pay and veterans' disability compensation from taking affect, and for other purposes.

Removes, for months beginning on or after October 1, 2002, the requirement that qualifying offsetting legislation be enacted before a member or former member of the armed forces may be paid military retired pay and veterans' disability compensation concurrently without deduction.

Repeals, as of such date, a special compensation program for certain severely disabled military retirees.

[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2051 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2051

 To remove a condition preventing authority for concurrent receipt of 
military retired pay and veterans' disability compensation from taking 
                    effect, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 21, 2002

   Mr. Reid (for himself, Mr. Hutchinson, Mr. Warner, Mr. Levin, Mr. 
   Daschle, Mr. Lott, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Thurmond, Mr. Lieberman, Mr. 
  McCain, Mr. Cleland, Mr. Smith of New Hampshire, Ms. Landrieu, Mr. 
 Inhofe, Mr. Reed, Mr. Santorum, Mr. Akaka, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Nelson of 
    Florida, Mr. Allard, Mr. Nelson of Nebraska, Mr. Sessions, Mrs. 
   Carnahan, Ms. Collins, Mr. Dayton, Mr. Bunning, and Mr. Bingaman) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To remove a condition preventing authority for concurrent receipt of 
military retired pay and veterans' disability compensation from taking 
                    effect, 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. EFFECTIVE DATE OF AUTHORITY FOR CONCURRENT RECEIPT OF 
              MILITARY RETIRED PAY AND VETERANS' DISABILITY 
              COMPENSATION.

    (a) Repeal of Contingent Effective Date.--Section 1414 of title 10, 
United States Code, as added by section 641(a) of the National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 (Public Law 107-107), is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``, subject to the 
        enactment of qualifying offsetting legislation as specified in 
        subsection (f)''; and
            (2) by striking subsections (e) and (f).
    (b) Substitution of Effective Date.--Section 1414 of title 10, 
United States Code, shall apply with respect to months beginning on or 
after October 1, 2002.
    (c) Prohibition of Retroactive Benefits.--(1) No benefit may be 
paid to any person by reason of section 1414 of title 10, United States 
Code, for any period before the date specified in subsection (b).
    (2) Section 641 of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 2002 (Public Law 107-107; 115 Stat. 1149) is amended by 
striking subsection (d).
    (d) Conforming Termination of Special Compensation Program.--(1) 
Effective on the date specified in subsection (b), section 1413 of 
title 10, United States Code, is repealed.
    (2) Section 1413 of title 10, United States Code, is amended--
            (A) in subsection (a), by striking the second sentence; and
            (B) in subsection (b)--
                    (i) in paragraph (1), by striking ``(1) For 
                payments'' and all that follows through ``December 
                2002, the following:'';
                    (ii) by striking paragraphs (2) and (3); and
                    (iii) by redesignating subparagraphs (A), (B), (C), 
                and (D) as paragraphs (1), (2), (3), and (4), 
                respectively, and realigning such paragraphs (as so 
                redesignated) two ems from the left margin.
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