US Congress Senate Bill 387 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-7)
Status: Introduced on February 17 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-02-17 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
Pending: Senate Armed Services Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Directs each Secretary of the military department concerned to: (1) establish procedures to implement flexible spending arrangements (FSAs) for military health care and dependent care for active-duty military personnel on a pre-tax basis; and (2) consider life events of members of the Armed Forces that are unique to them, including changes relating to permanent changes of duty station and deployments to overseas contingency operations. Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to submit to Congress recommendations on the advisability of authorizing FSAs for members of the reserves.

A bill to amend title 37, United States Code, to provide flexible spending arrangements for members of uniformed services, and for other purposes.

Sen. Barbara Boxer [D-CA]	Sen. Mark Begich [D-AK]	Sen. Jeff Bingaman [D-NM]	Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]
Sen. Roy Blunt [R-MO]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Richard Burr [R-NC]	Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]
Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]	Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]	Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]	Sen. Dean Heller [R-NV]
Sen. Kay Hutchison [R-TX]	Sen. Mary Landrieu [D-LA]	Sen. Frank Lautenberg [D-NJ]	Sen. Claire McCaskill [D-MO]
Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]	Sen. Barbara Mikulski [D-MD]	Sen. Jerry Moran [R-KS]	Sen. Lisa Murkowski [R-AK]
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]	Sen. Olympia Snowe [R-ME]	Sen. Mark Warner [D-VA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-02-17	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.

HB791 (Related) 2011-03-03 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/387/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/s387/BILLS-112s387is.pdf