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112TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 731 

To amend title 37, United States Code, to provide travel and transportation 

allowances for members of the reserve components for long distance 

and certain other travel to inactive duty training. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

APRIL 5, 2011 

Mr. BEGICH (for himself, Mr. TESTER, Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. WYDEN, and Mr. 

LEAHY) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 

to the Committee on Armed Services 

A BILL 

To amend title 37, United States Code, to provide travel 

and transportation allowances for members of the reserve 

components for long distance and certain other travel 

to inactive duty training. 

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 ‘‘Travel Reimbursement 

5 for Inactive Duty Training Personnel (TRIP) Act of 

6 2011’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. TRAVEL AND TRANSPORTATION ALLOWANCES FOR 

2 MEMBERS OF THE RESERVE COMPONENTS 

3 FOR LONG DISTANCE AND CERTAIN OTHER 

4 TRAVEL TO INACTIVE DUTY TRAINING. 

5 (a) ALLOWANCES REQUIRED.— 

6 (1) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 7 of title 37, United 

7 States Code, is amended by inserting after section 

8 408a the following new section: 

9 ‘‘§ 408b. Travel and transportation allowances: long 

10 distance and certain other travel to inac11 tive duty training performed by members 

12 of the reserve components of the armed 

13 forces 

14 ‘‘(a) ALLOWANCE REQUIRED.—The Secretary con15 cerned shall reimburse a member of a reserve component 

16 of the armed forces for transportation expenses, including 

17 mileage traveled, incurred in connection with the fol18 lowing: 

19 ‘‘(1) Round-trip travel in excess of 100 miles to 

20 an inactive duty training location, regardless of the 

21 method of transportation. 

22 ‘‘(2) Round-trip travel of any distance to an in23 active duty training location, if such travel requires 

24 a commercial method of transportation other than 

25 ground transportation. 

26 ‘‘(b) RATES OF REIMBURSEMENT.— 


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1 ‘‘(1) MILEAGE.—In determining the amount of 

2 allowances or reimbursement to be paid for mileage 

3 traveled under subsection (a)(1), the Secretary con4 cerned shall use the mileage reimbursement rate for 

5 the use of privately owned vehicles by Government 

6 employees on official business (when a Government 

7 vehicle is available), as prescribed by the Adminis8 trator of General Services under section 5707(b) of 

9 title 5. 

10 ‘‘(2) COMMERCIAL FARE FOR TRAVEL BY COM11 MON CARRIER.—The amount of reimbursement to be 

12 paid under subsection (a)(2) for travel covered by 

13 that subsection shall be the reasonable commercial 

14 fare expense for such travel by common carrier. 

15 ‘‘(c) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary concerned shall 

16 prescribe regulations to carry out this section. Regulations 

17 prescribed by the Secretary of a military department shall 

18 be subject to the approval of the Secretary of Defense.’’. 

19 (2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sec20 tions at the beginning of chapter 7 of such title is 

21 amended by inserting after the item relating to sec22 tion 408a the following new item: 

‘‘408b. Travel and transportation allowances: long distance and certain other 

travel to inactive duty training performed by members of the 

reserve components of the armed forces.’’. 

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

24 subsection (a) shall apply with respect to travel expenses 


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1 incurred after the expiration of the 90-day period that be2 gins on the date of the enactment of this Act. 

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