[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 98 (Wednesday, June 12, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3445]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 385. Ms. WARREN (for herself, Mr. Portman, Mr. Tillis, Ms. Sinema, 
Mr. Tester, and Mrs. Fischer) submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed by her to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for 
fiscal year 2020 for military activities of the Department of Defense, 
for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department 
of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal 
year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       At appropriate place in title X, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. TERMINATION OF LEASES OF PREMISES AND MOTOR 
                   VEHICLES OF SERVICEMEMBERS WHO INCUR 
                   CATASTROPHIC INJURY OR ILLNESS OR DIE WHILE IN 
                   MILITARY SERVICE.

       (a) Catastrophic Injuries and Illnesses.--Subsection (a) of 
     section 305 of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (50 U.S.C. 
     3955), as amended by section 301 of the Veterans Benefits and 
     Transition Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-407), is further 
     amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(4) Catastrophic injury or illness of lessee.--The spouse 
     of the lessee on a lease described in subsection (b) may 
     terminate the lease during the one-year period beginning on 
     the date on which the lessee incurs a catastrophic injury or 
     illness (as that term is defined in section 439(g) of title 
     37, United States Code), if the lessee incurs the 
     catastrophic injury or illness during a period of 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).''.
       (b) Deaths.--Paragraph (3) of such subsection is amended by 
     striking ``in subsection (b)(1)'' and inserting ``in 
     subsection (b)''.
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