[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4356 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4356


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 13, 2019

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 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).''.

            Passed the House of Representatives November 12, 2019.

            Attest:

                                             CHERYL L. JOHNSON,

                                                                 Clerk.