Title: Fallen Heroes Family Travel Act of 2019
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Fallen Heroes Family Travel Act of 2019
This bill addresses the transportation of the remains of members of the Armed Forces who die outside of the United States. It requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to provide, in the case of such a member whose remains are returned through the mortuary facility at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, transportation of such remains to the applicable escorted remains destination. (Under current law, this service is limited to the remains of those who die in a combat theater of operations.)
The bill also requires DOD to extend travel privileges to family members of those personnel whose remains are returned in this manner.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2494 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2494

To direct the Secretary of Defense to provide travel to Dover Air Force 
Base for family members of members of the Armed Forces who die outside 
 of the United States but not in a theater of combat operations so the 
family may receive the remains of the deceased, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 18, 2019

  Mr. Cotton (for himself and Ms. Duckworth) introduced the following 
   bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed 
                                Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Secretary of Defense to provide travel to Dover Air Force 
Base for family members of members of the Armed Forces who die outside 
 of the United States but not in a theater of combat operations so the 
family may receive the remains of the deceased, 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 ``Fallen Heroes Family Travel Act of 
2019''.

SEC. 2. TRANSPORTATION OF REMAINS OF CASUALTIES; TRAVEL EXPENSES FOR 
              NEXT OF KIN.

    (a) Transportation for Remains of a Member Who Dies Not in a 
Theater of Combat Operations.--Section 562 of the John Warner National 
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 (Public Law 109-364; 10 
U.S.C. 1482 note) is amended--
            (1) in the heading, by striking ``dying in a theater of 
        combat operations''; and
            (2) in subsection (a), by striking ``in a combat theater of 
        operations'' and inserting ``outside of the United States''.
    (b) Transportation for Family.--The Secretary of Defense shall 
revise Department of Defense Instruction 1300.18 to extend travel 
privileges via Invitational Travel Authorization to family members of 
members of the Armed Forces who die outside of the United States and 
whose remains are returned to the United States through the mortuary 
facility at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware.
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