Legislative
Every benefit
started as somebody's
resolution.
Kentucky writes them, carries them to the national floor, and votes on them. Here is what we took to Daytona Beach and what came back.
EANGKY members at the United States Capitol during the 2026 Legislative Workshop.
Ocean Center, Daytona Beach · 55th Annual Conference
Kentucky's 2026 results.
MyCAA Eligibility for Spouses of Title 32 AGR Members. Recommended and adopted without amendment. Submitted as proposal 26-02D. Official record
Gym Membership Reimbursement for National Guard Members. Amended on the floor, then adopted. Submitted as proposal 26-15D. Official record
Modernization of USERRA to Reflect the Operational Reserve Components. A failure to recommend is not a vote against the idea. The Committee report states that a submitting state may refine the proposal and resubmit it in a future cycle. Kentucky intends to do that.
What we won
Two proposals,
both adopted.
Standing Resolution 26-02 · MyCAA eligibility for spouses of Title 32 AGR members
The My Career Advancement Account scholarship provides up to $4,000 in tuition assistance to military spouses pursuing portable career credentials. Spouses of Guard members serving full time on Title 32 AGR duty are excluded. Those families receive the same pay, BAH, TRICARE, and retirement benefits as their Title 10 counterparts. The only difference is the statutory authority printed on the orders.
Military spouse unemployment runs 21 to 24 percent, roughly five times the civilian rate. FSA eligibility was already extended to Title 32 AGR personnel in 2024, and MyCAA pay grade eligibility expanded that October. The precedent exists. EANGUS adopted Kentucky's language without amendment.
Standing Resolution 26-08 · Gym membership reimbursement
The Army National Guard operates roughly 3,000 armories across more than 2,600 communities. Most lack adequate fitness equipment. Guard members spend more than 325 days a year in their civilian communities with no access to an installation fitness center, yet they meet the same standards as active duty personnel and face separation for repeated Army Fitness Test failures.
An estimated 68 percent of Reserve Component personnel are overweight or have obesity, the highest rate of any component. A benefit at $125 per Soldier annually across the full ARNG would cost roughly $41 million, under 3 percent of what is already spent on obesity-related care.
Montana moved on the floor to strike TRICARE from the title, the short description, and the recommendation. The amendment carried by voice vote. Under the Committee SOP a proposal may be amended only for clarity, not to change its meaning, so striking TRICARE means the proposal never depended on TRICARE as the delivery vehicle. The adopted ask names no payer, which leaves Congress, the Defense Health Agency, and the National Guard Bureau all on the table. That is a stronger position, not a weaker one.
Legislative Proposal 291
The end of the
dual-status technician.
NGB Legislative Proposal 291 would end the Title 32 Dual-Status Military Technician program as it has existed since 1969. It converts the workforce toward an end state of roughly 89 percent AGR and 11 percent Title 5 civilian, with full implementation targeted for 1 October 2038. Technicians nearing retirement eligibility may stay in technician status under a delayed-conversion option of up to ten years.
The proposal was developed at the department level, approved by the Office of Management and Budget, and transmitted to Congress in May 2026. It is not an association proposal. Conversion requires the consent of both the Governor and the individual Service Member.
EANGUS announced its support publicly on 6 June 2026. The House passed H.R. 8800 on 22 July. Delegates ratified the association position on 3 August by adopting Standing Resolution 26-09, National Guard Full-Time Support Workforce Modernization, submitted by West Virginia. The Senate has not passed S. 4784. Conference reconciliation is the next step.
Three questions still open
Control grade availability
Whether the grades exist to absorb the converted workforce.
FERS creditable service
How service is treated at the point of conversion.
Appropriations
Whether funding follows the authorized end strength increase.
Kentucky briefing
EANGKY produced an informational briefing on LP-291 for the membership and for the resolutions meeting. It documents the history from the 1968 Technicians Act forward, breaks the conversion decision out by years of service, and separates what is documented from what nobody can answer yet. Every source is public and listed. It takes no position. Read the briefing (PDF)
If you are a technician, read Section 4 and Section 8 first. Then pull your FERS service computation date and your military points statement. No public document answers what conversion means for you. Those two numbers do.
The full 2026 slate
Ten new Standing
Resolutions.
Adopted at the 55th Annual Conference and published in the FY27 EANGUS Legislative Resolutions Report. Standing Resolutions remain active until fulfilled, replaced, or archived. Two of the ten were written in Kentucky.
Include the National Guard Relief Foundation in 10 U.S.C.
MyCAA Eligibility for Spouses of Title 32 AGR Members
Sustain Funding for National Guard Psychological Health Programs
Accessible Substance Abuse Services for Traditional National Guardsmen
National Cemetery Burial Eligibility for National Guard Members and Dependents
Protecting National Guard Training and Pay During Government Shutdowns
Duty Status Reform
Gym Membership Reimbursement for National Guard Members
National Guard Full-Time Support Workforce Modernization
Standardized DD Form 214 Processing Timelines for National Guard Members
The national clock
Two deadlines,
one path.
A Kentucky resolution has to clear the state floor before it can go national, and the national window is narrow.
Kentucky, thirty days out
Written resolutions are due to the Committee on Resolutions no later than thirty days before the state conference convenes. For the 56th that is 27 January 2027. Submit one
National, 15 February to 30 May
Only a state association may submit to EANGUS, and only through the online form. Paper and PDF submissions are no longer accepted. State submissions are due no later than 30 May.
Kentucky on Capitol Hill
Adoption is the start,
not the finish.
EANGKY sends a delegation to the EANGUS Presidents and Legislative Workshop each spring. Members meet directly with Kentucky's Congressional delegation and their staffs to make the case in person. A resolution adopted in Daytona Beach only matters if somebody carries it into a Congressional office and explains what it does.
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for a resolution?
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