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H.R. 6140: Protecting the Retirement of Our Troops by Ensuring Compensation is Timely Act

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H.R. 6140: Protecting the Retirement of Our Troops by Ensuring Compensation is Timely Act

110th Congress · introduced 2008-05-22 · Armed Forces and National Security · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2008-05-22 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Broun, Paul C. [R-GA-10] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Protecting the Retirement of Our Troops by Ensuring Compensation is Timely Act

Plain summary

PROTECT Act or Protecting the Retirement of Our Troops by Ensuring Compensation is Timely Act - Prohibits the Secretary of a military department, regarding a participant in the Survivor Benefit Plan who the Secretary of State has determined was kidnapped in Iraq or Afghanistan on or after October 7, 2001, from making a determination that the participant is missing, with the presumption of death, until the earlier of: (1) at least seven years after the Secretary of State's determination; or (2) the date on which the participant is confirmed dead. Directs the Secretary of a military department, regarding such a participant who was presumed to be dead before enactment of this Act, to pay retired pay for periods before and after enactment of this Act until one of the above conditions is met.

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Official text

Protecting the Retirement of Our Troops by Ensuring Compensation is Timely Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Broun, Paul C. [R-GA-10] · 21 cosponsors

Cost estimate: No cost estimate published yet.

Cosponsors on this site

Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. (D-GA), John Boozman (R-AR), Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D-GA), Steve Cohen (D-TN)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong110-hr6140 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong110 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong110