Volume 86 · 796
Public Law 92–482
To amend section 552(a) of title 37, United States Code, to provide continuance of incentive pay to members of the uniformed services for the period required for hospitalization and rehabilitation after termination of missing status.
Approved October 12, 1972
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 552(a) of title 37, United States Code, to provide continuance of incentive pay to members of the uniformed services for the period required for hospitalization and rehabilitation after termination of missing status.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 552(a) of title 37, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
“(a) A member of a uniformed service who is on active duty or performing inactive-duty training, and who is in a missing status, is—
“(1) for the period he is in that status, entitled to receive or have credited to his account the same pay and allowances, as defined in this chapter, to which he was entitled at the beginning of that period or may thereafter become entitled; and
“(2) for the period, not to exceed one year, required for his hospitalization and rehabilitation after termination of that status, under regulations prescribed by the Secretaries concerned, with respect to incentive pay, considered to have satisfied the requirements
Ante, p. 740.
of section 301 of this title so as to entitle him to a continuance of that pay.
However, a member who is performing full-time training duty or other full-time duty without pay, or inactive-duty training with or without pay, is entitled to the pay and allowances to which he would have been entitled if he had been on active duty with pay.”
Approved October 12, 1972.