To amend title 10, United States Code, to increase the military death gratuity from $6,000 to $12,000 and to provide that such death gratuity shall be excluded from gross income under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
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Latest Action · September 5, 2003
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Increases from $6,000 to $12,000 the death gratuity paid upon the active-duty death of a member of the armed forces.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude any such death gratuity from gross income.
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