A bill to require payment of hazardous duty pay for members of the Armed Forces performing duty in response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019, and for other purposes.
United States116th CongressS-3617Senate
Updated: May 6, 2020
Summary
This bill requires the Department of Defense to pay hazardous duty pay during 2020 to active-duty regular or reserve servicemembers for duty related to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019). Such pay shall be not less than $150 a month, retroactively applied, provided in addition to any other pay and allowances to which the member is entitled, and excluded as gross income for purposes of federal income taxation.
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Timeline
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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