Title: A bill to amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to make a technical correction to ensure that the extended lease protections for servicemembers under stop movement orders in response to a local, national, or global emergency applies to members of the Coast Guard when the Coast Guard is operating in the service of the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
This bill extends certain lease protections for service members under stop movement orders in response to a local, national, or global emergency to members of the U.S. Coast Guard when the Coast Guard is operating in the service of the Department of Homeland Security.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4576 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4576

   To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to make a technical 
     correction to ensure that the extended lease protections for 
   servicemembers under stop movement orders in response to a local, 
  national, or global emergency applies to members of the Coast Guard 
 when the Coast Guard is operating in the service of the Department of 
               Homeland Security, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 15, 2020

  Mr. Wicker (for himself and Ms. Cantwell) 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 make a technical 
     correction to ensure that the extended lease protections for 
   servicemembers under stop movement orders in response to a local, 
  national, or global emergency applies to members of the Coast Guard 
 when the Coast Guard is operating in the service of the Department of 
               Homeland Security, 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. TECHNICAL CORRECTION REGARDING EXTENSION OF LEASE 
              PROTECTIONS FOR SERVICEMEMBERS UNDER STOP MOVEMENT ORDERS 
              IN RESPONSE TO LOCAL, NATIONAL, OR GLOBAL EMERGENCY.

    (a) In General.--Section 305(b) of the Servicemembers Civil Relief 
Act (50 U.S.C. 3955(b)), as amended by Public Law 116-158, is further 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)(C)(ii), by inserting ``(or, in the 
        case of the Coast Guard when operating in the service of the 
        Department of Homeland Security, the Secretary of Homeland 
        Security)'' after ``Secretary of Defense''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2)(C)(ii), by inserting ``(or, in the 
        case of the Coast Guard when operating in the service of the 
        Department of Homeland Security, the Secretary of Homeland 
        Security)'' after ``Secretary of Defense''.
    (b) Retroactive Application.--The amendments made by this section 
shall apply to stop movement orders issued on or after March 1, 2020.
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