[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 594 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 594

 To amend title 37, United States Code, to provide for the payment of 
   temporary lodging expenses incurred by family members who receive 
transportation incident to the hospitalization of a member of the Armed 
Forces for a serious illness or serious injury sustained by the member 
                          in the line of duty.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 26, 1993

  Mr. Jacobs introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 37, United States Code, to provide for the payment of 
   temporary lodging expenses incurred by family members who receive 
transportation incident to the hospitalization of a member of the Armed 
Forces for a serious illness or serious injury sustained by the member 
                          in the line of duty.

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

SECTION 1. PAYMENT OF TEMPORARY LODGING EXPENSES INCURRED BY FAMILY 
              MEMBERS VISITING A HOSPITALIZED MEMBER OF THE ARMED 
              FORCES.

    (a) Payment Required If Illness or Injury Incurred in the Line of 
Duty.--Section 411h of title 37, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(e) Temporary Lodging Expenses.--(1) If a member described in 
subsection (a)(2) is hospitalized for a serious illness or serious 
injury sustained in the line of duty, family members provided 
transportation authorized by subsection (a) shall be paid or reimbursed 
for subsistence expenses actually incurred by the family members while 
temporarily occupying accommodations at the location of the medical 
facility in which the member is hospitalized.
    ``(2) The Secretaries concerned shall prescribe uniform regulations 
to carry out this subsection. Such regulations shall include reasonable 
limitations on the daily and total amount of subsistence expenses that 
may be paid or reimbursed under this subsection.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendments.--(1) The heading of such section is 
amended to read as follows:
``Sec. 411h. Travel and transportation allowances: transportation and 
              temporary lodging expenses of family members incident to 
              the serious illness or injury of members''.
    (2) The item relating to such section in the table of sections at 
the beginning of chapter 7 of such title is amended to read as follows:

``411h. Travel and transportation allowances: transportation and 
                            temporary lodging expenses of family 
                            members incident to the serious illness or 
                            injury of members.''.
    (3) Such section is further amended--
            (A) by inserting ``Transportation Authorized.--'' after 
        ``(a)'';
            (B) by inserting ``Family Members Defined.--'' after 
        ``(b)'';
            (C) by inserting ``Type of Transportation.--'' after 
        ``(c)''; and
            (D) by inserting ``Means of Transportation.--'' after 
        ``(d)''.
    (c) Effective Date.--Subsection (e) of section 411h of title 37, 
United States Code, as added by subsection (a), shall apply with 
respect to the hospitalization of members of the Armed Forces occurring 
after December 15, 1989.

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