Title: Modernizing Notice of Lease Terminations for Servicemembers Act of 2020
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Modernizing Notice of Lease Terminations for Servicemembers Act of 2020
This bill specifies that a service member who is authorized under current law to terminate a lease of premises or a motor vehicle lease without incurring an early termination fee may use electronic means to provide notice of the termination.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4566 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4566

 To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to provide clarification 
 of delivery of notice of termination of leases of premises and motor 
                   vehicles, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 14, 2020

Ms. Warren (for herself, Mr. Portman, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Boozman, Mr. 
  Tester, and Mr. Reed) introduced the following bill; which was read 
        twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to provide clarification 
 of delivery of notice of termination of 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 ``Modernizing Notice of Lease 
Terminations for Servicemembers Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION OF DELIVERY OF NOTICE OF TERMINATION OF LEASES OF 
              PREMISES AND MOTOR VEHICLES FOR PURPOSES OF RELIEF UNDER 
              SERVICEMEMBERS CIVIL RELIEF ACT.

    (a) In General.--Section 305(c)(2) of the Servicemembers Civil 
Relief Act (50 U.S.C. 3955(c)(2)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``or'' at the end;
            (2) in subparagraph (C), by striking the period and 
        inserting ``; or''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
                    ``(D) by electronic means, including--
                            ``(i) the direct delivery of material to an 
                        electronic address designated by the lessor (or 
                        the lessor's grantee) or the lessor's agent (or 
                        the agent's grantee);
                            ``(ii) the posting of material to a website 
                        or other internet or electronic-based 
                        information repository to which access has been 
                        granted to the lessee, the lessor (or the 
                        lessor's grantee), or the lessor's agent (or 
                        the agent's grantee); and
                            ``(iii) other electronic means reasonably 
                        calculated to ensure actual receipt of the 
                        material by the lessor (or the lessor's 
                        grantee) or the lessor's agent (or the agent's 
                        grantee).''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
apply to delivery of notice of lease terminations on or after the date 
the enactment of this Act.
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