A bill to provide relief for retired military personnel.
Latest action. Referred to House Committee on Armed Services.
Provides that any member of a Regular or Reserve component of the Armed Forces who is retired and is receiving from the United States retired or retirement pay and other benefits incident to his retired status, and who is required by provisions of the Constitution or statutes of a State to resign his military commission, terminate his retired status, and forgo receipt of retired or retirement pay and other benefits incident to such retired status, in order to be eligible to accept elective or appointive civil office under the said State, shall, with his consent, be reappointed by the service Secretary alone to the grade and position on the retired list which he held prior to his resignation, effective the day following termination of his State civil office, and as of such date be entitled to resume receipt of the retired or retirement pay and other benefits incident to his retired status to which he was entitled prior to his resignation. Provides that if such retired member is participating in the Survivor Benefit Plan established by Public Law 92-245, at the time of his resignation, to accept a State civil office, he may, notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, continue to participate in the plan as if he had never resigned by depositing in the Treasury each month thereafter the sum of money that otherwise would have been deducted from his retired pay for the month under the plan, and if the said retired member should die while holding State civil office his beneficiary or beneficiaries under the plan shall be paid the annuity authorized thereunder as if the said member had died while in retired status.
Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Introduced in House" stage on May 1, 1974. It describes the bill, it is not the legal text.
Where is it in the process, and what happens next?
4 steps remain before this bill could become law.
The record's latest action, on May 1, 1974: Referred to House Committee on Armed Services.
- Clearing the committees it was referred to, and being scheduled for a floor vote
- Passage by the House
- Passage by the Senate
- The President's signature. If the President vetoes it, two-thirds of both chambers must vote to override.
How likely is it to become law?
Civibrief does not forecast outcomes and this page has no opinion about this one. What the record supports is a base rate, which is a fact about the whole pile, not a prediction about this measure.
In the 93rd Congress (1973-74), 651 of the 23,396 bills and joint resolutions introduced became law, about 2.8 percent. That count covers every measure at every stage, including the many that never left committee.
This one is not there yet: 4 steps are still outstanding, listed above.
Has anyone actually voted on it?
No. No roll call in this Congress cites this measure. That is the ordinary outcome: most measures never reach a recorded floor vote, and a committee ends most of them simply by not acting.
A vote is not the only thing that happens to a measure. Hearings, markups, and referrals are all recorded actions, and none of them is a vote of the full chamber.
Who is behind it?
OLIN TEAGUE (D-TX) introduced it on May 1, 1974. No cosponsors are recorded.
Cosponsoring is a formal signature on the text. It is not a commitment to vote for the measure, it does not bind anyone's party, and a long list of cosponsors is a measure of attention rather than of prospects.
How long has it been in play?
It was introduced on May 1, 1974, 19125 days ago. The most recent recorded action was 19125 days ago, on May 1, 1974.
Measures do not carry over. Anything the 93rd Congress has not finished by January 3, 1975 dies when the term ends, and has to be introduced again from the start in the next Congress.
Every answer above is assembled from this measure's own record on Congress.gov and from published counts of what Congress has passed before. Civibrief does not predict outcomes and takes no position on any measure.
Vote history
- HouseIn committee, no floor vote yet
- SenateAwaits House passage
- PresidentAwaits both chambers