Federal - HR 333
A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to permit retired members of the Armed Forces who have a service-connected disability rated less than 50 percent to receive concurrent payment of both retired pay and veterans' disability compensation, to extend eligibility for concurrent receipt to chapter 61 disability retirees with less than 20 years of service, and for other purposes.
Introduced
January 5, 2017
Description
A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to permit retired members of the Armed Forces who have a service-connected disability rated less than 50 percent to receive concurrent payment of both retired pay and veterans' disability compensation, to extend eligibility for concurrent receipt to chapter 61 disability retirees with less than 20 years of service, and for other purposes.
Our Position
Support
Original Sponsor 1
Co-Sponsors 44
- Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH)
- Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)
- Del. Madeleine Bordallo (D-GU)
- Rep. Julia Brownley (D-CA)
- Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI)
- Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN)
- Rep. Gerald Connolly (D-VA)
- Rep. Joe Courtney (D-CT)
- Rep. Charlie Crist (D-FL)
- Rep. Susan Davis (D-CA)
- Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR)
- Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-WA)
- Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL)
- Rep. Dan Donovan (R-NY)
- Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL)
- Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA)
- Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX)
- Rep. Denny Heck (D-WA)
- Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX)
- Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC)
- Rep. Derek Kilmer (D-WA)
- Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI)
- Rep. Peter King (R-NY)
- Rep. Rick Larsen (D-WA)
- Rep. Alfred Lawson (D-FL)
- Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA)
- Rep. Sean Maloney (D-NY)
- Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA)
- Rep. Martha McSally (R-AZ)
- Del. Eleanor Norton (D-DC)
- Rep. Collin Peterson (D-MN)
- Rep. Scott Peters (D-CA)
- Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME)
- Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-CA)
- Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH)
- Rep. David Scott (D-GA)
- Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH)
- Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID)
- Rep. Darren Soto (D-FL)
- Rep. Michael Turner (R-OH)
- Rep. Marc Veasey (D-TX)
- Rep. Filemon Vela (D-TX)
- Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA)
- Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY)
Latest Actions See More/Less
May 17, 2018 — Additional cosponsor(s): 7
Blumenauer, (D-Ore.) Donovan, (R-N.Y.) Norton, (D-D.C.) Connolly, (D-Va.) Gonzalez, (D-Texas) Crist, (D-Fla.) Lawson, (D-Fla.) June 16, 2017 — Additional cosponsor(s): 4
Beatty, (D-Ohio) King, P. (R-N.Y.) Gaetz, (R-Fla.) Peterson, (D-Minn.) March 13, 2017 — Additional cosponsor(s): 5
Cohen, (D-Tenn.) Lofgren, (D-Calif.) Turner, (R-Ohio) Courtney, (D-Conn.) Ruiz, (D-Calif.) Feb. 14, 2017 — Additional cosponsor(s): 22
Bordallo, (D-Guam) Kilmer, (D-Wash.) Scott, D. (D-Ga.) Cicilline, (D-R.I.) Kind, R. (D-Wis.) Simpson, M. (R-Idaho) Davis, S. (D-Calif.) Larsen, R. (D-Wash.) Veasey, (D-Texas) DeFazio, (D-Ore.) Maloney, S. (D-N.Y.) Vela, (D-Texas) DelBene, (D-Wash.) McGovern, (D-Mass.) Wittman, (R-Va.) Deutch, (D-Fla.) McSally, (R-Ariz.) Yarmuth, (D-Ky.) Garamendi, (D-Calif.) Pingree, (D-Maine) Heck, (D-Wash.) Ryan, T. (D-Ohio) Jan. 13, 2017 — Additional cosponsor(s): 6
Brownley, (D-Calif.) Jones, (R-N.C.) Shea-Porter, (D-N.H.) Jackson Lee, S. (D-Texas) Peters, S. (D-Calif.) Soto, (D-Fla.) Jan. 5, 2017 — Read twice and referred to: House Armed Services, House Veterans' Affairs.Congressional Record p. H180