Title: To amend section 1065 of title 10, United States Code, as added by the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019, to extend certain morale, welfare, and recreation privileges to Foreign Service officers on mandatory home leave.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
This bill makes Foreign Service officers on mandatory home leave eligible to use certain military lodging on the same basis as an Armed Forces member entitled to retired or retainer pay. The lodging facilities are those operated by the Department of Defense for the morale, welfare, and recreation of members.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3045 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3045

To amend section 1065 of title 10, United States Code, as added by the 
John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019, 
to extend certain morale, welfare, and recreation privileges to Foreign 
               Service officers on mandatory home leave.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 30, 2019

   Mr. Mast introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend section 1065 of title 10, United States Code, as added by the 
John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019, 
to extend certain morale, welfare, and recreation privileges to Foreign 
               Service officers on mandatory home leave.

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

SECTION 1. EXTENSION OF CERTAIN MORALE, WELFARE, AND RECREATION 
              PRIVILEGES TO FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS ON MANDATORY HOME 
              LEAVE.

    (a) In General.--Section 1065 of title 10, United States Code, as 
added by section 621 of the John S. McCain National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (Public Law 115-232), is 
amended--
            (1) in the heading, by striking ``veterans and caregivers 
        for veterans'' and inserting ``veterans, caregivers for 
        veterans, and Foreign Service officers'';
            (2) by redesignating subsections (f) and (g) as subsections 
        (g) and (h), respectively;
            (3) by inserting after subsection (e) the following new 
        subsection (f):
    ``(f) Eligibility of Foreign Service Officers on Mandatory Home 
Leave.--A Foreign Service officer on mandatory home leave shall be 
permitted to use military lodging referred to in subsection (h) on the 
same basis as a member of the armed forces entitled to retired or 
retainer pay.''; and
            (4) in subsection (h), as redesignated by paragraph (2), by 
        adding at the end the following new paragraphs:
            ``(5) The term `Foreign Service officer' has the meaning 
        given that term in section 103 of the Foreign Service Act of 
        1980 (22 U.S.C. 3903).
            ``(6) The term `mandatory home leave' means leave under 
        section 903 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 
        4083).''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall take 
effect on January 1, 2020, as if originally incorporated in section 621 
of Public Law 115-232.
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