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H.R. 2827: Captain James C. Edge Gold Star Spouse Equity Act

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H.R. 2827: Captain James C. Edge Gold Star Spouse Equity Act

117th Congress · introduced 2021-04-22 · Armed Forces and National Security · Latest: Subcommittee Hearings Held.

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Follow this bill, step by step

  1. Where it came from: introduced 2021-04-22 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Waltz, Michael [R-FL-6] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Subcommittee Hearings Held. 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

Captain James C. Edge Gold Star Spouse Equity Act

Plain summary

Captain James C. Edge Gold Star Spouse Equity Act This bill addresses restrictions on benefits for surviving spouses of service members. Specifically, the bill prohibits the termination of the payment of an annuity under the Survivor Benefit Plan for certain surviving spouses of service members who died while on active duty solely because the surviving spouse remarries. The Department of Defense must resume payment of an annuity to surviving spouses who remarried before the age of 55 and before the enactment of this bill. The remarriage of a surviving spouse of a veteran does not bar the provision of dependency and indemnity compensation, regardless of their age when they remarried. The Department of Veterans Affairs must resume payment of dependency and indemnity compensation to surviving spouses who remarried before the age of 57 prior to the enactment of this bill.

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Official text

Captain James C. Edge Gold Star Spouse Equity Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Waltz, Michael [R-FL-6] · 25 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Seth Moulton (D-MA), Jason Crow (D-CO), Don Bacon (R-NE), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), August Pfluger (R-TX), Scott Franklin (R-FL), Salud O. Carbajal (D-CA), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA), Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA), Jared F. Golden (D-ME), Andy Kim (D-NJ), Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX), Marilyn Strickland (D-WA), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Jake Ellzey (R-TX), Elise M. Stefanik (R-NY), Austin Scott (R-GA), Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), Dina Titus (D-NV), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong117-hr2827 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117