Making appropriations for fiscal year 2011 to ensure that members of the Armed Forces, including reserve components thereof, continue to receive pay and allowances for active service performed during a Government shutdown.

Appropriation of funds for military pay and allowances

If a funding gap occurs during fiscal year 2011 impacting the Armed Forces, amounts are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, at a rate for operations as provided for military personnel accounts by division A of H.R. 1, as passed by the House of Representatives on February 19, 2011, for the purpose of providing pay and allowances (without interruption) to members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, including reserve components thereof, who perform active service during the funding gap.

Funding gap defined

In this section, the term funding gap means any period of time after the beginning of fiscal year 2011 for which interim or full-year appropriations for the military personnel accounts of the Armed Forces for that fiscal year have not been enacted by a law other than this Act.