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S. 339: Military Widow's Tax Elimination Act of 2017

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S. 339: Military Widow's Tax Elimination Act of 2017

115th Congress · introduced 2017-02-07 · Armed Forces and National Security · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2017-02-07 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

Military Widow's Tax Elimination Act of 2017

Plain summary

Military Widow's Tax Elimination Act of 2017 This bill repeals certain provisions which require the offset of amounts paid in dependency and indemnity compensation from Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) annuities for the surviving spouses of former military personnel who are entitled to military retired pay or who would be entitled to such pay, except for being under 60 years of age. The Department of Defense is prohibited from recouping certain amounts previously paid to SBP recipients in the form of a retired pay refund. The bill requires (current law authorizes) the Secretary of the military department concerned to pay an annuity to a member's dependent children when there is no eligible surviving spouse. The Secretary concerned shall restore annuity eligibility to a surviving spouse who earlier agreed to transfer such eligibility to the surviving child or children of a member.

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Official text

Military Widow's Tax Elimination Act of 2017

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL] · 51 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Susan M. Collins (R-ME), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Christopher A. Coons (D-DE), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Tim Scott (R-SC), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), John Boozman (R-AR), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Cory A. Booker (D-NJ), Richard J. Durbin (D-IL), Patty Murray (D-WA), Gary C. Peters (D-MI), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Bernard Sanders (I-VT), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), James E. Risch (R-ID), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Michael F. Bennet (D-CO), John Hoeven (R-ND)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong115-s339 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115