US Congress Senate Bill 339 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 35-16-1)
Status: Introduced on February 7 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-02-07 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
Pending: Senate Armed Services Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Military Widow's Tax Elimination Act of 2017 This bill repeals certain provisions which require the offset of amounts paid in dependency and indemnity compensation from Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) annuities for the surviving spouses of former military personnel who are entitled to military retired pay or who would be entitled to such pay, except for being under 60 years of age. The Department of Defense is prohibited from recouping certain amounts previously paid to SBP recipients in the form of a retired pay refund. The bill requires (current law authorizes) the Secretary of the military department concerned to pay an annuity to a member's dependent children when there is no eligible surviving spouse. The Secretary concerned shall restore annuity eligibility to a surviving spouse who earlier agreed to transfer such eligibility to the surviving child or children of a member.

Military Widow's Tax Elimination Act of 2017

Sen. Bill Nelson [D-FL]	Sen. Susan Collins [R-ME]	Sen. Mike Crapo [R-ID]	Sen. Marco Rubio [R-FL]
Sen. Lisa Murkowski [R-AK]	Sen. Thom Tillis [R-NC]	Sen. Tom Cotton [R-AR]	Sen. Dean Heller [R-NV]
Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]	Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]	Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]
Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]	Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]	Sen. Luther Strange [R-AL]	Sen. Tim Scott [R-SC]
Sen. Richard Burr [R-NC]	Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]	Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]	Sen. John Boozman [R-AR]
Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]	Sen. Jon Tester [D-MT]	Sen. Chris Van Hollen [D-MD]	Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]
Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]	Sen. Tom Udall [D-NM]	Sen. Martin Heinrich [D-NM]	Sen. Maria Cantwell [D-WA]
Sen. Cory Booker [D-NJ]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]	Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]
Sen. Kamala Harris [D-CA]	Sen. Al Franken [D-MN]	Sen. Gary Peters [D-MI]	Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]
Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]	Sen. Doug Jones [D-AL]	Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]	Sen. James Inhofe [R-OK]
Sen. Roy Blunt [R-MO]	Sen. Tammy Duckworth [D-IL]	Sen. James Risch [R-ID]	Sen. Claire McCaskill [D-MO]
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp [D-ND]	Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto [D-NV]	Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-VT]	Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith [R-MS]
Sen. Michael Bennet [D-CO]	Sen. John Hoeven [R-ND]	Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]	Sen. Joe Manchin [D-WV]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-07	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.

HB846 (Related) 2017-02-24 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/339/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s339/BILLS-115s339is.pdf