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[H.R. 4356 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.4356

                     One Hundred Sixteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

           Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday,
            the third day of January, two thousand and twenty


                                 An Act


 
     To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to allow certain 
  individuals to terminate contracts for telephone, multichannel video 
    programming, or internet access service, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Protecting Families of Fallen 
Servicemembers Act''.
SEC. 2. TERMINATION OF CONTRACTS FOR TELEPHONE, MULTICHANNEL VIDEO 
PROGRAMMING, OR INTERNET ACCESS SERVICE BY CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS UNDER 
SERVICEMEMBERS CIVIL RELIEF ACT.
    Section 305A(a) of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (50 U.S.C. 
3956(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
        ``(4) Additional individuals covered.--For purposes of this 
    section, the following individuals shall be treated as a 
    servicemember covered by paragraph (1):
            ``(A) A spouse or dependent of a servicemember who dies 
        while in military service or a spouse or dependent of a member 
        of the reserve components who dies while performing duty 
        described in subparagraph (C).
            ``(B) A spouse or dependent of a servicemember who incurs a 
        catastrophic injury or illness (as that term is defined in 
        section 439(g) of title 37, United States Code), if the 
        servicemember incurs the catastrophic injury or illness while 
        in military service or performing duty described in 
        subparagraph (C).
            ``(C) A member of the reserve components performing 
        military service or 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).''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.