[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2366 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2366

To extend the current Department of Defense telecommunications benefit 
   program through the end of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation 
 Enduring Freedom and to provide for the application of the program to 
                     other contingency operations.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 16, 2005

   Mr. Filner (for himself, Mr. Petri, Mr. Shays, Mrs. Tauscher, Mr. 
Snyder, Mr. Ryan of Ohio, and Mr. Strickland) introduced the following 
      bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To extend the current Department of Defense telecommunications benefit 
   program through the end of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation 
 Enduring Freedom and to provide for the application of the program to 
                     other contingency operations.

    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 ``Troops Phone Home Free Extension 
Act''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE TELECOMMUNICATIONS BENEFIT 
              PROGRAM.

    (a) Termination at End of Contingency Operation.--Subsection (c) of 
section 344 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
2004 (Public Law 108-136; 117 Stat. 1449), as amended by section 341 of 
the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
2005 (Public Law 108-375; 118 Stat. 1857), is further amended by 
striking ``terminate on September 30, 2006'' and inserting ``terminate 
with respect to a contingency operation on the date that is 60 days 
after the date on which the Secretary determines that the contingency 
operation has ended''.
    (b) Application to Other Contingency Operations.--Such section is 
further amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``Operation Iraqi 
        Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom'' and inserting ``a 
        contingency operation''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(g) Contingency Operation Defined.--In this section, the term 
`contingency operation' has the meaning given that term in section 
101(a)(13) of title 10, United States Code. The term includes Operation 
Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.''.
    (c) Extension to Hospitalized Members.--Subsection (a) of such 
section is further amended--
            (1) by striking ``As soon as possible after the date of the 
        enactment of this Act, the'' and inserting ``The''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new sentence: ``As 
        soon as possible after the date of the enactment of the Troops 
        Phone Home Free Extension Act, the Secretary shall extend such 
        telecommunications benefit to members of the Armed Forces who, 
        although no longer covered by the preceding sentence, are 
        hospitalized as a result of wounds or other injuries incurred 
        while serving in direct support of a contingency operation.''.
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