[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5882 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5882


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 25, 2018

    Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' 
                                Affairs

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                                 AN ACT


 
    To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to provide for the 
 termination by a spouse of a lessee of certain leases when the lessee 
                    dies while in military service.

    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 ``Gold Star Spouses Leasing Relief 
Act''.

SEC. 2. TERMINATION OF LEASES OF PREMISES OF DECEASED SERVICEMEMBERS 
              WHO DIE WHILE IN MILITARY SERVICE.

    Section 305(a) of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (50 U.S.C. 
3955) is amended--
            (1) in the subsection heading, by striking ``by Lessee'';
            (2) in the heading for paragraph (1), by striking ``In 
        general'' and inserting ``Termination by lessee''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(3) Death of lessee.--The spouse of the lessee on a lease 
        described in subsection (b)(1) may terminate the lease during 
        the one-year period beginning on the date of the death of the 
        lessee, if the lessee dies while in military service or while 
        performing full-time National Guard duty, active Guard and 
        Reserve duty, or inactive-duty training (as such terms are 
        defined in section 101(d) of title 10, United States Code).''.

            Passed the House of Representatives July 24, 2018.

            Attest:

                                                 KAREN L. HAAS,

                                                                 Clerk.