I 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6070 
To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to guarantee the residency 
of spouses of military personnel. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 15, 2008 
Mr. CARTER (for himself, Mr. BURGESS, Mr. CONAWAY, Mr. PEARCE, Mr. 
THORNBERRY, Mr. KUCINICH, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mr. 
MCCOTTER, Mr. KING of New York, Mr. FERGUSON, Mr. MCHUGH, Mr. 
MCCRERY, Mr. MCCARTHY of California, Mr. DENT, Mr. REHBERG, Mr. 
BROWN of South Carolina, Mr. LATTA, Mr. BARRETT of South Carolina, 
Mr. TERRY, Mr. PUTNAM, Mr. GINGREY, Mr. COLE of Oklahoma, Mr. 
CULBERSON, Mr. BOUSTANY, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. SIRES, Mr. HOLT, 
Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. CANTOR, Mr. DREIER, Mr. BOEHNER, Mr. BLUNT, 
Mr. RODRIGUEZ, Mr. BRADY
of Texas, Mr. NEUGEBAUER, Mrs. 
BLACKBURN, Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida, Ms. GRANGER, Mr. 
SULLIVAN, Mr. EDWARDS, Mr. ROGERS of Michigan, Mr. MARSHALL, 
Mr. CUELLAR, Mr. POE, Mr. HINOJOSA, Mr. MILLER of Florida, Mrs. 
MUSGRAVE, Mr. DAVID DAVIS of Tennessee, Mr. GALLEGLY, Mr. HALL 
of Texas, Mr. ROSS, Mr. MICA, Mr. DEAL of Georgia, Mr. BROUN of 
Georgia, Mr. COBLE, Ms. FOXX, Mr. TURNER, Mr. HENSARLING, Mr. 
SMITH of Texas, Mr. SHUSTER, Mr. MCCAUL of Texas, Mr. KINGSTON, 
Mr. BOOZMAN, Mr. KLINE of Minnesota, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. RAN-
GEL, Mr. LINCOLN DAVIS of Tennessee, and Mrs. MYRICK) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Af-
fairs 
A BILL 
To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to guarantee 
the residency of spouses of military personnel. 
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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 Spouses Resi-
dency Relief Act’’. 
SEC. 2. GUARANTEE OF RESIDENCY FOR SPOUSES OF MILI-
TARY PERSONNEL. 
(a) GUARANTEE OF RESIDENCY.—Section 705 of the 
Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (50 U.S.C. App. 595) is 
amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘For’’ and inserting ‘‘(a) For’’; 
and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(b) For the purposes of voting for any Federal office 
(as defined in section 301 of the Federal Election Cam-
paign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 431)) or a State or local 
office, a person who is absent from a State because the 
person is accompanying the person’s spouse who is absent 
from that same State in compliance with military or naval 
orders shall not, solely by reason of that absence— 
‘‘(1) be deemed to have lost a residence or 
domicile in that State, without regard to whether or 
not the person intends to return to that State; 
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‘‘(2) be deemed to have acquired a residence or 
domicile in any other State; or 
‘‘(3) be deemed to have become a resident in or 
a resident of any other State.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENTS.— 
(1) The heading for such section is amended to 
read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 705. GUARANTEE OF RESIDENCY FOR MILITARY PER-
SONNEL AND SPOUSES OF MILITARY PER-
SONNEL.’’. 
(2) The item relating to such section in the 
table of contents in section 1(b) of such Act is 
amended to read as follows: 
‘‘Sec. 705. Guarantee of residency for military personnel and spouses of mili-
tary personnel.’’. 
SEC. 3. RESIDENCE FOR TAX PURPOSES. 
Section 511(a) of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act 
(50 U.S.C. App. 571(a)) is amended— 
(1) by inserting ‘‘(1)’’ before ‘‘A servicemem-
ber’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) A spouse of a servicemember shall neither lose 
nor acquire a residence or domicile for purposes of tax-
ation with respect to the person, personal property, or in-
come of the spouse by reason of being absent or present 
in any tax jurisdiction of the United States solely to be 
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with 
the 
servicemember 
in 
compliance 
with 
the 
servicemember’s military orders if the residence or domi-
cile, as the case may be, is the same for the servicemember 
and the spouse.’’. 
Æ 
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