Title: Gold Star Spouses and Spouses of Injured Servicemembers Leasing Relief Expansion Act of 2019
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Gold Star Spouses and Spouses of Injured Servicemembers Leasing Relief Expansion Act of 2019
This bill authorizes spouses of military servicemembers to terminate leases of premises and motor vehicles in certain situations. Specifically, the bill allows the spouse of a servicemember lessee to terminate the leases within one year of the date on which the servicemember incurs a catastrophic injury or illness connected with their military service.
The bill also allows the spouse of a servicemember lessee who died in military service to terminate a motor vehicle lease within one year of the death of the servicemember.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2227 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2227

 To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to authorize spouses of 
servicemembers who incur a catastrophic injury or illness or die while 
in military service to terminate leases of premises and motor vehicles, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 10, 2019

  Mrs. Bustos (for herself, Mr. Wenstrup, Ms. Brownley of California, 
Miss Gonzalez-Colon of Puerto Rico, Mr. Crow, Mr. Golden, Mr. Cisneros, 
 and Mr. Pappas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                   the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to authorize spouses of 
servicemembers who incur a catastrophic injury or illness or die while 
in military service to terminate leases of premises and motor vehicles, 
                        and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Gold Star Spouses and Spouses of 
Injured Servicemembers Leasing Relief Expansion Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. TERMINATION OF LEASES OF PREMISES AND MOTOR VEHICLES OF 
              SERVICEMEMBERS WHO INCUR CATASTROPHIC INJURY OR ILLNESS 
              OR DIE WHILE IN MILITARY SERVICE.

    (a) Catastrophic Injuries and Illnesses.--Subsection (a) of section 
305 of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (50 U.S.C. 3955), as amended 
by section 301 of the Veterans Benefits and Transition Act of 2018 
(Public Law 115-407), is further amended by adding at the end the 
following new paragraph:
            ``(4) Catastrophic injury or illness of lessee.--The spouse 
        of the lessee on a lease described in subsection (b) may 
        terminate the lease during the one-year period beginning on the 
        date on which the lessee incurs a catastrophic injury or 
        illness (as that term is defined in section 439(g) of title 37, 
        United States Code), if the lessee incurs the catastrophic 
        injury or illness during a period of military service or while 
        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).''.
    (b) Deaths.--Paragraph (3) of such subsection is amended by 
striking ``in subsection (b)(1)'' and inserting ``in subsection (b)''.
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