Protecting Gold Star Spouses Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2631 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2631

     To provide interim appropriations for the Coast Guard Retired
  Servicemans Family Protection and Survivor Benefits Plans for each
      fiscal year after fiscal year 2024, and for other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 3, 2025

    Mr. Green of Tennessee introduced the following bill; which was
              referred to the Committee on Appropriations

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                                 A BILL

     To provide interim appropriations for the Coast Guard Retired
  Servicemans Family Protection and Survivor Benefits Plans for each
      fiscal year after fiscal year 2024, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting Gold Star Spouses Act of
2025''.

SEC. 2. INTERIM APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE COAST GUARD RETIRED SERVICEMAN'S
              FAMILY PROTECTION AND SURVIVOR BENEFITS PLANS.

    (a) In General.--There are hereby appropriated, out of any money in
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for each fiscal year after
fiscal year 2024, such sums as necessary for payment of the Coast Guard
Retired Serviceman's Family Protection and Survivor Benefits Plans, as
are described in the provision regarding Coast Guard retired pay in
title II of division F of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021
(Public Law 116-260), at a rate for operations and under the terms and
conditions provided by the most recent law making full-year
appropriations for such Coast Guard Retired Serviceman's Family
Protection and Survivor Benefits Plans.
    (b) Effect of Enactment of Subsequent Appropriations.--If an
appropriation for such Coast Guard Retired Serviceman's Family
Protection and Survivor Benefits Plans, or a general appropriation bill
providing appropriations for the Coast Guard without provision for such
Coast Guard Retired Serviceman's Family Protection and Survivor
Benefits Plans, is enacted into law on any date after the date of the
enactment of this Act that provides for appropriations during a fiscal
year following the expenditure of funds during such fiscal year
pursuant to this Act--
            (1) such expenditure shall be charged to such appropriation
        (if any); and
            (2) appropriations made available for such fiscal year
        pursuant to this Act shall not be available after the date of
        enactment of such appropriation or general appropriation bill.
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