A bill to amend title 37, United States Code, to standardize payment of hazardous duty incentive pay for members performing parachute jumping as an essential part of military duty, and for other purposes.

II 116TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION S. 1542 To amend title 37, United States Code, to standardize payment of hazardous duty incentive pay for members performing parachute jumping as an essential part of military duty, and for other purposes. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES MAY 20, 2019 Mr. MANCHIN introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services A BILL To amend title 37, United States Code, to standardize pay- ment of hazardous duty incentive pay for members per- forming parachute jumping as an essential part of mili- tary duty, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. STANDARDIZATION OF PAYMENT OF HAZ- 3 ARDOUS DUTY INCENTIVE PAY FOR MEM- 4 BERS PERFORMING PARACHUTE JUMPING AS 5 AN ESSENTIAL PART OF MILITARY DUTY. 6 (a) PAYMENT TO RESERVE COMPONENT MEMBERS 7 AS IF DUTY WERE PERFORMED ON ACTIVE DUTY BY 8 VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:00 May 29, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S1542.IS S1542 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS 2 •S 1542 IS MEMBERS ENTITLED TO BASIC PAY.—Section 301 of title 1 37, United States Code, is amended— 2 (1) in subsection (f)(1), by inserting ‘‘or to a 3 member covered by subsection (g)’’ before the period 4 in the last sentence; and 5 (2) by adding at the end the following new sub- 6 section: 7 ‘‘(g) A member of a reserve component of a uni- 8 formed service, or the National Guard, entitled to com- 9 pensation under section 206 of this title who performs, 10 under orders, duty described in subsection (a)(3) in a 11 month is entitled to an increase in compensation for that 12 month equal to the amount provided for in the second sen- 13 tence of subsection (c)(1) as if such duty had been per- 14 formed by the member while entitled to basic pay.’’. 15 (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 16 subsection (a) shall take effect on October 1, 2019, and 17 shall apply with respect to duty performed in any month 18 beginning on or after that date. 19 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:00 May 29, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\S1542.IS S1542 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS