[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 552 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 552

To amend the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940 to provide 
 certain protections under that Act for members of the Armed Forces on 
 active duty who have entered into housing leases and are unexpectedly 
  deployed or reassigned to new duty assignments requiring relocation.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 21, 1993

  Mr. Upton introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940 to provide 
 certain protections under that Act for members of the Armed Forces on 
 active duty who have entered into housing leases and are unexpectedly 
  deployed or reassigned to new duty assignments requiring relocation.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. RELIEF FROM LEASES FOR SERVICEMEMBERS GIVEN UNANTICIPATED 
              NEW ORDERS.

    (a) Relief.--Section 304 of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief 
Act of 1940 (50 U.S.C. App. 534) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (1)(a), by inserting after ``military 
        service'' the following: ``or who, while in military service, 
        executed such lease and subsequently was given unanticipated 
        military orders requiring such person to relocate before the 
        termination of such lease'';
            (2) in subsection (2), by striking out the period at the 
        end of the first sentence and inserting in lieu thereof the 
        following: ``or the date of the unanticipated military orders, 
        as the case may be.''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(4) For purposes of subsection (1), unanticipated military orders 
are orders which were not anticipated at the time a lease was 
executed.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
apply to notices to terminate leases delivered in accordance with 
subsection (2) of section 304 of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil 
Relief Act of 1940, as amended by subsection (a), after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.

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