Ensuring Pay for Our Military Act of 2011

Ensuring Pay for Our Military Act of 2011 - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, during a federal funding gap impacting the Armed Forces, to transfer to the Secretary of Defense (DOD), and the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) in the case of the Coast Guard, amounts necessary to continue to provide pay and allowances to members of the Armed Forces, including the reserves, who perform active service during the funding gap.

Prohibits any such transfer after December 31, 2011.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 721 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 721

To appropriate such funds as may be necessary to ensure that members of 
  the Armed Forces, including reserve components thereof, 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.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 4, 2011

 Mrs. Hutchison (for herself and Mr. Inhofe) introduced the following 
      bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                             Appropriations

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                                 A BILL


 
To appropriate such funds as may be necessary to ensure that members of 
  the Armed Forces, including reserve components thereof, 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.

    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 ``Ensuring Pay for Our Military Act of 
2011''.

SEC. 2. EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS TO PROVIDE PAY AND ALLOWANCES 
              FOR MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES DURING FUNDING GAP 
              IMPACTING THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OR DEPARTMENT OF 
              HOMELAND SECURITY.

    (a) Appropriation of Funds for Military Pay and Allowances.--During 
a funding gap impacting the Armed Forces, the Secretary of the Treasury 
shall make available to the Secretary of Defense (and the Secretary of 
Homeland Security in the case of the Coast Guard), out of any amounts 
in the general fund of the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such 
amounts as the Secretary of Defense (and the Secretary of Homeland 
Security in the case of the Coast Guard) determines to be necessary to 
continue to provide pay and allowances (without interruption) to 
members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, 
including reserve components thereof, who perform active service during 
the funding gap.
    (b) Funding Gap Defined.--In this section, the term ``funding gap'' 
means any period of time 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.
    (c) Duration of Transfer Authority.--No transfer may be made by the 
Secretary of the Treasury under subsection (a) after December 31, 2011.
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