SECTION 1. TERMINATION OF MULTICHANNEL VIDEO PRO-
GRAMMING AND INTERNET ACCESS SERVICE 
CONTRACTS. 
(a) 
IN
GENERAL.—Section 
305A 
of 
the 
Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (50 U.S.C. 3956) is 
amended— 
(1) in the section heading, by inserting ‘‘, MUL-
TICHANNEL
VIDEO
PROGRAMMING, 
AND 
INTERNET ACCESS’’ after ‘‘TELEPHONE’’; 
(2) in subsection (a), by adding at the end the 
following new paragraph: 
‘‘(4) ADDITIONAL INDIVIDUALS COVERED.—For 
purposes of this section, the following individuals 
shall be treated as a servicemember covered by para-
graph (1): 
‘‘(A) A spouse of a servicemember who 
dies while in military service or a spouse of a 
member of the reserve components who dies 
while performing duty described in subpara-
graph (B). 
‘‘(B) A member of the reserve components 
performing military service or performing 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).’’;
(3) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘cellular tele-
phone service or telephone exchange service’’ and in-
serting ‘‘commercial mobile service, telephone ex-
change service, Internet access service, or multi-
channel video programming service’’; 
(4) in subsection (c), by inserting ‘‘for commer-
cial mobile service or telephone exchange service’’ be-
fore ‘‘terminated’’; 
(5) in subsection (d), in the matter preceding 
paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘cellular telephone serv-
ice’’ and inserting ‘‘commercial mobile service’’; 
(6) in subsection (e)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘For any’’ and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—For any’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘If the’’ and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(2) REINSTATEMENT
OF
SERVICE.—If the’’; 
and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(3) RETURN
OF
PROVIDER-OWNED
EQUIP-
MENT.—If a servicemember terminates a contract 
under subsection (a), the servicemember shall return 
any provider-owned consumer premises equipment to
the service provider not later than 10 days after the 
date on which service is disconnected.’’; and 
(7) in subsection (g)— 
(A) by redesignating paragraph (2) as 
paragraph (4); and 
(B) by striking paragraph (1) and insert-
ing the following: 
‘‘(1) The term ‘commercial mobile service’ has 
the meaning given that term in section 332(d) of the 
Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 332(d)). 
‘‘(2) The term ‘multichannel video program-
ming service’ means a subscription video service of-
fered by a multichannel video programming dis-
tributor, as that term is defined in section 602 of 
the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 522), 
over a system the distributor owns or controls. 
‘‘(3) The term ‘provider-owned consumer prem-
ises equipment’ means any equipment that a pro-
vider of Internet access service or multichannel video 
programming service rents or loans to a customer 
during the provision of that service, including gate-
ways, routers, cable modems, voice-capable modems, 
CableCARDs, converters, digital adapters, remote 
controls, and any other equipment provided.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENTS.—
(1) TITLE HEADING.—The heading for title III 
of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act is amended 
by 
striking 
‘‘TELEPHONE’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘COMMUNICATIONS’’. 
(2) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of con-
tents in section 1(b) of the Servicemembers Civil Re-
lief Act is amended— 
(A) by striking the item relating to title III 
and inserting the following: 
‘‘TITLE 
III—RENT, 
INSTALLMENT 
CONTRACTS, 
MORTGAGES, 
LIENS, ASSIGNMENT, LEASES, COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE CON-
TRACTS’’; 
and 
(B) by striking the item relating to section 
305A and inserting the following: 
‘‘Sec. 305A. Termination of telephone, multichannel video programming, and 
Internet access service contracts.’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives July 24, 2018. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 2409 
AN ACT 
To allow servicemembers to terminate their cable, 
satellite television, and Internet access service 
contracts while deployed.