CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 8013
53rd Legislature
1994 Regular Session
Passed by the Senate February 1, 1994 YEAS 47 NAYS 0
President of the Senate
Passed by the House March 2, 1994 YEAS 95 NAYS 0 |
CERTIFICATE
I, Marty Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 8013 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth. |
Speaker of the House of Representatives |
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Governor of the State of Washington |
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SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 8013
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Passed Legislature - 1994 Regular Session
State of Washington 53rd Legislature 1993 Regular Session
By Senators Winsley, M. Rasmussen and Oke
Read first time 02/09/93. Referred to Committee on Government Operations.
TO THE HONORABLE BILL CLINTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AND TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AND TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES, IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED:
We, your Memorialists, the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Washington, in legislative session assembled, respectfully represent and petition as follows:
WHEREAS, The recent conflict in the Persian Gulf has brought to our attention once again the valuable contribution of our servicemen and servicewomen; and
WHEREAS, Citizens who choose to make a career of military service and who have served their country for at least twenty years receive military retirement pay based on the longevity of their service; and
WHEREAS, Veterans who have a service-connected disability have made a very personal sacrifice for their country and receive compensation in proportion to the severity of their disabilities; and
WHEREAS, Under current federal law, those individuals who have a service-connected disability and who have chosen to devote twenty or more years of service to the military are prohibited from receiving concurrently their full retirement pay and their full disability compensation. Instead these individuals may receive their retirement pay or their disability compensation, or they must waive an amount of retirement pay equal to the amount of their disability compensation; and
WHEREAS, This is an inequitable situation which effectively requires disabled miliary retirees to pay for their own disability compensation benefits out of their retirement pay earned through years of dedicated service; and
WHEREAS, There are a number of measures that have been introduced in the United States Congress which would reduce or eliminate this inequity by allowing disabled military retirees to receive concurrently their retirement pay and their disability compensation benefits;
NOW, THEREFORE, Your Memorialists respectfully pray that the United States Congress amend existing federal law to permit career military retirees with service-connected disabilities to receive concurrently their full retirement pay and their full disability compensation.
BE IT RESOLVED, That copies of this Memorial be immediately transmitted to the Honorable Bill Clinton, President of the United States, the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and to each member of Congress from the State of Washington.
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