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115TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 2541 

To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to authorize spouses of 

servicemembers to elect to use the same residences as the 

servicemembers, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MARCH 13, 2018 

Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself, Mr. CORNYN, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. MANCHIN, 

and Mr. KAINE) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 

referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 

A BILL 

To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to authorize 

spouses of servicemembers to elect to use the same residences as the servicemembers, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Support Our Military 

5 Spouses Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. RESIDENCE OF SPOUSES OF SERVICEMEMBERS 

7 FOR TAX PURPOSES. 

8 (a) RESIDENCE FOR TAX PURPOSES.—Section 

9 511(a)(2) of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (50 


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1 U.S.C. 4001(a)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the 

2 following new sentence: ‘‘The spouse of a servicemember 

3 may elect to use the same residence for purposes of tax4 ation as the servicemember regardless of the date on which 

5 the marriage of the spouse and the servicemember oc6 curred.’’. 

7 (b) APPLICABILITY.—The amendment made by sub8 section (a) shall apply with respect to any return of State 

9 or local income tax filed for any taxable year beginning 

10 with the taxable year that includes the date of the enact11 ment of this Act. 

12 SEC. 3. RESIDENCE OF SPOUSES OF SERVICEMEMBERS 

13 FOR VOTING. 

14 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 705(b) of the 

15 Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (50 U.S.C. 4025(b)) is 

16 amended— 

17 (1) by striking ‘‘State or local office’’ and all 

18 that follows through the period at the end of para19 graph (3) and inserting ‘‘State or local office—’’; 

20 and 

21 (2) by adding at the end the following new 

22 paragraphs: 

23 ‘‘(1) a person who is absent from a State be24 cause the person is accompanying the person’s 

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1 pliance with military or naval orders shall not, solely 

2 by reason of that absence— 

3 ‘‘(A) be deemed to have lost a residence or 

4 domicile in that State, without regard to wheth5 er or not the person intends to return to that 

6 State; 

7 ‘‘(B) be deemed to have acquired a resi8 dence or domicile in any other State; or 

9 ‘‘(C) be deemed to have become a resident 

10 in or a resident of any other State; and 

11 ‘‘(2) the spouse of a servicemember may elect 

12 to use the same residence as the servicemember re13 gardless of the date on which the marriage of the 

14 spouse and the servicemember occurred.’’. 

15 (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 

16 subsection (a) shall take effect on the date that is 90 days 

17 after the date of the enactment of this Act. 

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