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S.F. No. 117 - Salary Payments to National Guard Members
Author: Senator Don Betzold
Prepared by: Carol E. Baker, Senate Counsel (651/296-4395)
Date: March 3, 2003

Section 1. [Payment of Salary Differential for Reserve Forces Ordered to Active Service.] requires a state agency to pay to each eligible member of the National Guard or other armed forces reserve an amount equal to the difference between the member's basic active duty military salary and the salary the member would be paid as an active state employee. This payment may be made only to a person whose military salary is less than the state salary, and may not extend beyond four years. The state employer must also pay any benefit to which the member was entitled when ordered to active service.

An eligible member is a reservist or National Guard member who was an employee of the state at the time the member was ordered to active service, on or after September 11, 2001. The term "active service" does not include service performed exclusively for training purposes.

Section 2. [May Pay Salary Differential of Reserve on Active Duty.] allows local units of government to pay to each eligible member of the National Guard or other armed forces reservist an amount equal to the difference between the member's basic active duty military salary and the salary the member would be paid as an active political subdivision employee. The section gives a political subdivision discretion regarding employee benefit continuation. The term "active service" excludes service performed exclusively for training purposes.

Section 3. [Effective Date.] makes sections 1 and 2 effective the day following final enactment and applies retroactively to the date an employee was ordered to active service, on or after September 11, 2001.

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