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 (DHS), 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. Allows for the provision of such pay and allowances, at the discretion of the Secretary of Defense, for: (1) civilian DOD personnel providing support to such members; and (2) DOD contractor personnel providing direct support to such members.

Prohibits any such transfer after December 31, 2011.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 724 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 724

To appropriate such funds as may be necessary to ensure that members of 
the Armed Forces, including reserve components thereof, and supporting 
     civilian and contractor personnel 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 5, 2011

Mrs. Hutchison (for herself, Ms. Snowe, Mr. Inhofe, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. 
 Hoeven, and Mr. Casey) 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, and supporting 
     civilian and contractor personnel 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 AND SUPPORTING CIVILIAN 
              AND CONTRACTOR PERSONNEL 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 the 
following:
            (1) Members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and 
        Coast Guard, including reserve components thereof, who perform 
        active service during the funding gap.
            (2) At the discretion of the Secretary of Defense, such 
        civilian personnel of the Department of Defense who are 
        providing support to the members of the Armed Forces described 
        in paragraph (1) as the Secretary considers appropriate.
            (3) At the discretion of the Secretary of Defense, such 
        personnel of contractors of the Department of Defense who are 
        providing direct support to the members of the Armed Forces 
        described in paragraph (1) as the Secretary considers 
        appropriate.
    (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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