S.Amdt. 1456
What it does: Adds SEC. 358. SENSE OF SENATE ON TAX RELIEF FOR EMPLOYERS WHO COVER PAY GAP OF MOBILIZED EMPLOYEES WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVES at the end of subtitle C of title V
Sen. Mary L. Landrieu (D-LA)What it changes
1 change to S. 1042 · shown in the bill's text
Adds SEC. 358. SENSE OF SENATE ON TAX RELIEF FOR EMPLOYERS WHO COVER PAY GAP OF MOBILIZED EMPLOYEES WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVES at the end of subtitle C of title V
Adds a sectionIn S. 1042 · Placed on Calendar Senate
(3) any recommendations for legislative or administrative action that the Secretary considers appropriate in light of the pilot program.
Inserted: SEC. 358. SENSE OF SENATE ON TAX RELIEF FOR EMPLOYERS WHO COVER PAY GAP OF MOBILIZED EMPLOYEES WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVES.
Inserted: (a) Findings.--The Senate makes the following findings:
Inserted: (1) More than 137,000 members of the National Guard and the Reserves have been called or ordered to active duty.
Inserted: (2) 74,700 members of the National Guard and the Reserves are serving bravely in the war on terrorism.
Inserted: (3) When a member of the National Guard or the Reserves is called or ordered to active duty, the member faces a loss of income in the difference between the amount of the member's civilian pay and the member's military pay (often referred to as a "pay gap") because military salaries are less than civilian salaries. More than 51 percent of our citizen soldiers take a pay cut when they are deployed, and 11 percent of them lose more than $2,500 per month.
Inserted: (4) The pay gap can make it difficult for military families to make ends meet while a member of the National Guard or the Reserves is mobilized.
Inserted: (5) There are hundreds, if not thousands, of patriotic employers that continue to pay the salaries of members of the National Guard and the Reserves who are called or ordered to active duty.
Inserted: (6) Some of these employers not only continue to pay salaries to their employees who are members of the National Guard or the Reserves on active duty, they often need to hire a temporary employee to keep their businesses going while such employees are on active duty.
Inserted: (7) While these patriotic employers make this sacrifice, there are thousands more who cannot afford to do so.
Inserted: (b) Sense of Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate that the tax provisions under budget reconciliation should contain provisions to provide tax relief to employers who make up the pay gap for their employees who are called or ordered to active duty in the National Guard or the Reserves.
Original wording
At the end of subtitle C of title V, add the following:
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As printed
SA 1456. Ms. LANDRIEU submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 1042, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2006 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the end of subtitle C of title V, add the following:
SEC. 358. SENSE OF SENATE ON TAX RELIEF FOR EMPLOYERS WHO COVER PAY GAP OF MOBILIZED EMPLOYEES WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVES.
(a) Findings.--The Senate makes the following findings:
(1) More than 137,000 members of the National Guard and the Reserves have been called or ordered to active duty.
(2) 74,700 members of the National Guard and the Reserves are serving bravely in the war on terrorism.
(3) When a member of the National Guard or the Reserves is called or ordered to active duty, the member faces a loss of income in the difference between the amount of the member's civilian pay and the member's military pay (often referred to as a “pay gap”) because military salaries are less than civilian salaries. More than 51 percent of our citizen soldiers take a pay cut when they are deployed, and 11 percent of them lose more than $2,500 per month.
(4) The pay gap can make it difficult for military families to make ends meet while a member of the National Guard or the Reserves is mobilized.
(5) There are hundreds, if not thousands, of patriotic employers that continue to pay the salaries of members of the National Guard and the Reserves who are called or ordered to active duty.
(6) Some of these employers not only continue to pay salaries to their employees who are members of the National Guard or the Reserves on active duty, they often need to hire a temporary employee to keep their businesses going while such employees are on active duty.
(7) While these patriotic employers make this sacrifice, there are thousands more who cannot afford to do so.
(b) Sense of Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate that the tax provisions under budget reconciliation should contain provisions to provide tax relief to employers who make up the pay gap for their employees who are called or ordered to active duty in the National Guard or the Reserves.
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Senate amendment submitted
July 25, 2005