[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5848 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5848

To direct the Secretary of Defense to provide travel to Dover Air Force 
Base for family members of members of the Armed Forces who die outside 
 of the United States but not in a theater of combat operations so the 
            family may receive the remains of the deceased.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 16, 2018

  Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois (for himself, Mr. Carter of Texas, Mr. 
  Harris, and Mr. O'Rourke) introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Secretary of Defense to provide travel to Dover Air Force 
Base for family members of members of the Armed Forces who die outside 
 of the United States but not in a theater of combat operations so the 
            family may receive the remains of the deceased.

    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 ``Fallen Heroes Family Travel Act of 
2018''.

SEC. 2. TRANSPORTATION OF REMAINS OF CASUALTIES; TRAVEL EXPENSES FOR 
              NEXT OF KIN.

    (a) Transportation for Remains of a Member Who Dies Not in a 
Theater of Combat Operations.--Section 562 of the John Warner National 
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 (Public Law 109-364; 10 
U.S.C. 1482 note) is amended--
            (1) in the heading, by striking ``dying in a theater of 
        combat operations''; and
            (2) in subsection (a), by striking ``in a combat theater of 
        operations'' and inserting ``outside of the United States''.
    (b) Transportation for Family.--The Secretary of Defense shall 
revise Department of Defense Instruction 1300.18 to extend travel 
privileges via Invitational Travel Authorization to family members of 
members of the Armed Forces who die outside of the United States and 
whose remains are returned to the United States through the mortuary 
facility at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware.
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