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Union Calendar No. 640 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5428 
[Report No. 114–816] 
To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to authorize spouses of 
servicemembers to elect to use the same residences as the servicemembers. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 9, 2016 
Mr. FORBES introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 
NOVEMBER 14, 2016 
Additional sponsors: Mr. KNIGHT, Ms. STEFANIK, Mr. BISHOP of Utah, Mr. 
GIBSON, Mr. CALVERT, Mr. CARTER of Texas, Mr. MILLER of Florida, 
and Mr. ISSA 
NOVEMBER 14, 2016 
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union 
and ordered to be printed 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Military Residency 
Choice Act’’. 
SEC. 2. RESIDENCE OF SPOUSES OF SERVICEMEMBERS 
FOR TAX PURPOSES. 
(a) RESIDENCE
FOR
TAX
PURPOSES.—Section 
511(a)(2) of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (50 
U.S.C. 4001(a)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following new sentence: ‘‘The spouse of a servicemember 
may elect to use the same residence for purposes of tax-
ation as the servicemember regardless of the date on which 
the marriage of the spouse and the servicemember oc-
curred.’’. 
(b) APPLICABILITY.—The amendment made by sub-
section (a) shall apply with respect to any return of State 
or local income tax filed for any taxable year beginning 
with the taxable year that includes the date of the enact-
ment of this Act. 
SEC. 3. RESIDENCE OF SPOUSES OF SERVICEMEMBERS 
FOR VOTING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 705(b) of such Act is 
amended— 
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(1) by striking ‘‘State or local office’’ and all 
that follows through the period at the end of para-
graph (3) and inserting ‘‘State or local office—’’; 
and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraphs: 
‘‘(1) a person who is absent from a State be-
cause the person is accompanying the person’s 
spouse who is absent from that same State in com-
pliance with military or naval orders shall not, solely 
by reason of that absence— 
‘‘(A) be deemed to have lost a residence or 
domicile in that State, without regard to wheth-
er or not the person intends to return to that 
State; 
‘‘(B) be deemed to have acquired a resi-
dence or domicile in any other State; or 
‘‘(C) be deemed to have become a resident 
in or a resident of any other State; and 
‘‘(2) the spouse of a servicemember may elect 
to use the same residence as the servicemember re-
gardless of the date on which the marriage of the 
spouse and the servicemember occurred.’’. 
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(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
subsection (a) shall take effect on the date that is 90 days 
after the enactment of this Act. 
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Union Calendar No. 640 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5428 
[Report No. 114–816] 
A BILL 
To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to 
authorize spouses of servicemembers to elect to 
use the same residences as the servicemembers. 
NOVEMBER 14, 2016 
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
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