[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 116 (Wednesday, June 24, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S3216]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1682. Ms. WARREN (for herself and Mr. Portman) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 4049, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2021 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 the appropriate place in title X, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. CLARIFICATION OF 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.--Paragraph (4) of 
     section 305(a) of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (50 
     U.S.C. 3955(a)), as added by section 545 of the National 
     Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 (Public Law 
     116-92), is amended to read as follows:
       ``(4) Catastrophic injury or illness of lessee.--
       ``(A) Termination.--If the lessee on a lease described in 
     subsection (b) incurs a catastrophic injury or illness during 
     a period of military service or while performing covered 
     service, during the one-year period beginning on the date on 
     which the lessee incurs such injury or illness--
       ``(i) the lessee may terminate the lease; or
       ``(ii) in the case of a lessee who lacks the mental 
     capacity to contract or to manage his or her own affairs 
     (including disbursement of funds without limitation) due to 
     such injury or illness--

       ``(I) in a case in which the lessee has a spouse, the 
     spouse may terminate the lease;
       ``(II) in a case in which the lessee does not have a spouse 
     but does have an adult dependent, the dependent may terminate 
     the lease;
       ``(III) in a case in which the lessee does not have a 
     spouse or an adult dependent, a person who has been granted a 
     power of attorney by the lessee may terminate the lease; or
       ``(IV) in any other case, such other person as a court of 
     competent jurisdiction may appoint to manage the affairs of 
     the lessee may terminate the lease.

       ``(B) Definitions.--In this paragraph:
       ``(i) Catastrophic injury or illness.--The term 
     `catastrophic injury or illness' has the meaning given that 
     term in section 439(g) of title 37, United States Code.
       ``(ii) Covered service.--The term `covered service' means 
     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 section is amended by 
     striking ``The spouse of the lessee'' and inserting ``The 
     spouse or dependent of the lessee''.
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