[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4017 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4017

 To amend the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940 to treat 
as military service under that Act certain National Guard duty under a 
  call to active service for a period of 30 consecutive days or more.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 20, 2002

   Mr. Evans (for himself, Mr. Reyes, Mrs. Davis of California, Mr. 
    Dingell, Mr. Underwood, Mr. Pastor, Mr. Meehan, Mr. Maloney of 
Connecticut, Mr. Andrews, Ms. McKinney, Mr. Costello, and Ms. Carson of 
   Indiana) 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 treat 
as military service under that Act certain National Guard duty under a 
  call to active service for a period of 30 consecutive days or more.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief 
Equity Act''.

SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN NATIONAL GUARD DUTY AS MILITARY SERVICE 
              UNDER SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' CIVIL RELIEF ACT OF 1940.

    Section 101(1) of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 
1940 (50 U.S.C. App. 511(1)) is amended--
            (1) in the first sentence--
                    (A) by striking ``and all'' and inserting ``all''; 
                and
                    (B) by inserting before the period the following: 
                ``, and all members of the National Guard on duty 
                described in the following sentence''; and
            (2) in the second sentence, by inserting before the period 
        the following: ``, and, in the case of a member of the National 
        Guard, shall include service under a call to active service for 
        a period of more than 30 consecutive days if such service is 
        prescribed by the Secretary of the Army or Secretary of the Air 
        Force under section 502(f) of title 32, United States Code, and 
        is supported by Federal funds for a contingency operation 
        authorized by the President or Secretary of Defense''.
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