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‘‘(d) UNUSUAL OR EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES.—An 
authorized traveler may be provided travel and transpor-
tation allowances under this section for unusual, extraor-
dinary, hardship, or emergency circumstances, including 
circumstances warranting evacuation from a permanent 
duty assignment location. 
‘‘(e) PARTICULAR SEPARATION PROVISIONS.—The ad-
ministering Secretary may provide travel-in-kind and 
transportation-in-kind for the following persons in accord-
ance with regulations prescribed under section 464 of this 
title: 
‘‘(1) A member who is retired, or is placed on 
the temporary disability retired list, under chapter 61 
of title 10. 
‘‘(2) A member who is retired with pay under 
any other law or who, immediately following at least 
eight years of continuous active duty with no single 
break therein of more than 90 days, is discharged 
with separation pay or is involuntarily released from 
active duty with separation pay or readjustment pay. 
‘‘(3) A member who is discharged under section 
1173 of title 10. 
‘‘(f) ATTENDANCE AT MEMORIAL CEREMONIES AND 
SERVICES.—A family member or member of the uniformed 
services who attends a deceased member’s repatriation, bur-
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ial, or memorial ceremony or service may be provided travel 
and transportation allowances to the extent provided in reg-
ulations prescribed under section 464 of this title. 
‘‘§ 454. Travel and transportation: pilot programs 
‘‘(a) PILOT PROGRAMS.—Except as otherwise prohib-
ited by law, the Secretary of Defense may conduct pilot pro-
grams to evaluate alternative travel and transportation 
programs, policies, and processes for Department of Defense 
authorized travelers. Any such pilot program shall be de-
signed to enhance cost savings or other efficiencies that ac-
crue to the Government and be conducted so as to evaluate 
one or more of the following: 
‘‘(1) Alternative methods for performing and re-
imbursing travel. 
‘‘(2) Means for limiting the need for travel. 
‘‘(3) Means for reducing the environmental im-
pact of travel. 
‘‘(b) LIMITATIONS.—(1) Not more than three pilot pro-
grams may be carried out under subsection (a) at any one 
time. 
‘‘(2) The duration of a pilot program may not exceed 
four years. 
‘‘(3) The authority to carry out a pilot program is 
subject to the availability of appropriated funds.
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‘‘(c) REPORTS.—(1) Not later than 30 days before the 
commencement of a pilot program under subsection (a), the 
Secretary shall submit to the congressional defense commit-
tees a report on the pilot program. The report on a pilot 
program under this paragraph shall set forth a description 
of the pilot program, including the following: 
‘‘(A) The purpose of the pilot program. 
‘‘(B) The duration of the pilot program. 
‘‘(C) The cost savings or other efficiencies antici-
pated to accrue to the Government under the pilot 
program. 
‘‘(2) Not later than 60 days after the completion of 
a pilot program, the Secretary shall submit to the congres-
sional defense committees a report on the pilot program. 
The report on a pilot program under this paragraph shall 
set forth the following: 
‘‘(A) A description of results of the pilot pro-
gram. 
‘‘(B) Such recommendations for legislative or ad-
ministrative action as the Secretary considers appro-
priate in light of the pilot program. 
‘‘(d) CONGRESSIONAL DEFENSE COMMITTEES DE-
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘congressional defense 
committees’ has the meaning given that term in section 
101(a)(16) of title 10.
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‘‘SUBCHAPTER II—ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
‘‘§ 461. Relationship to other travel and transpor-
tation authorities 
‘‘An authorized traveler may not be paid travel and 
transportation allowances or receive travel-in-kind and 
transportation-in-kind, or a combination thereof, under 
both subchapter I and subchapter III for official travel per-
formed under a single or related travel and transportation 
order or authorization by the administering Secretary. 
‘‘§ 462. Travel and transportation allowances paid to 
members that are unauthorized or in ex-
cess of authorized amounts: requirement 
for repayment 
‘‘(a) REPAYMENT REQUIRED.—Except as provided in 
subsection (b), a member of the uniformed services or other 
person who is paid travel and transportation allowances 
under subchapter I shall repay to the United States any 
amount of such payment that is determined to be unauthor-
ized or in excess of the applicable authorized amount. 
‘‘(b) EXCEPTION.—The regulations prescribed under 
section 464 of this title shall specify procedures for deter-
mining the circumstances under which an exception to re-
payment otherwise required by subsection (a) may be grant-
ed.
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‘‘(c) EFFECT
OF BANKRUPTCY.—An obligation to 
repay the United States under this section is, for all pur-
poses, a debt owed the United States. A discharge in bank-
ruptcy under title 11 does not discharge a person from such 
debt if the discharge order is entered less than five years 
after the date on which the debt was incurred. 
‘‘§ 463. Programs of compliance; electronic processing 
of travel claims 
‘‘(a) PROGRAMS OF COMPLIANCE.—The administering 
Secretaries shall provide for compliance with the require-
ments of this chapter through programs of compliance estab-
lished and maintained for that purpose. 
‘‘(b) ELEMENTS.—The programs of compliance under 
subsection (a) shall— 
‘‘(1) minimize the provision of benefits under 
this chapter based on inaccurate claims, unauthorized 
claims, overstated or inflated claims, and multiple 
claims for the same benefits through the electronic 
verification of travel claims on a near-time basis and 
such other means as the administering Secretaries 
may establish for purposes of the programs of compli-
ance; and 
‘‘(2) ensure that benefits provided under this 
chapter do not exceed reasonable or actual and nec-
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essary expenses of travel claimed or reasonable allow-
ances based on commercial travel rates. 
‘‘(c) ELECTRONIC PROCESSING OF TRAVEL CLAIMS.— 
(1) By not later than the date that is five years after the 
date of the enactment of the National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2012, any travel claim under this chap-
ter shall be processed electronically. 
‘‘(2) The administering Secretary, or the Secretary’s 
designee, may waive the requirement in paragraph (1) with 
respect to a particular claim in the interests of the depart-
ment concerned. 
‘‘(3) The electronic processing of claims under this sub-
section shall be subject to the regulations prescribed by the 
Secretary of Defense under section 464 of this title which 
shall apply uniformly to all members of the uniformed serv-
ices and, to the extent practicable, to all other authorized 
travelers. 
‘‘§ 464. Regulations 
‘‘This subchapter and subchapter I shall be adminis-
tered under terms, rates, conditions, and regulations pre-
scribed by the Secretary of Defense in consultation with the 
other administering Secretaries for members of the uni-
formed services. Such regulations shall be uniform for the 
Department of Defense and shall apply as uniformly as
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practicable to the uniformed services under the jurisdiction 
of the other administering Secretaries. 
‘‘SUBCHAPTER III—TRAVEL AND 
TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITIES—OLD LAW 
‘‘§ 471. Travel authorities transition expiration date 
‘‘In this subchapter, the term ‘travel authorities transi-
tion expiration date’ means the last day of the 10-year pe-
riod beginning on the first day of the first month beginning 
after the date of the enactment of the National Defense Au-
thorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012. 
‘‘§ 472. Definitions and other incorporated provisions 
of chapter 7 
‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—The provisions of section 401 of 
this title apply to this subchapter. 
‘‘(b) OTHER PROVISIONS.—The provisions of sections 
421 and 423 of this title apply to this subchapter.’’. 
(c) REPEAL OF OBSOLETE AUTHORITY.—Section 411g 
of title 37, United States Code, is repealed. 
(d) TRANSFER OF SECTIONS.— 
(1) TRANSFER TO SUBCHAPTER I.—Section 412 
of title 37, United States Code, is transferred to chap-
ter 8 of such title, as added by subsection (b), inserted 
after section 454, and redesignated as section 455. 
(2) TRANSFER
OF
CURRENT
CHAPTER
AU-
THORITIES TO SUBCHAPTER III.—Sections 404, 404a,