Title: Emergency Relief for Servicemembers Act of 2021
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Emergency Relief for Servicemembers Act of 2021
This bill authorizes a servicemember to terminate specified contracts (e.g., contracts for commercial mobile service or internet service) that are entered into in relation to military orders for a permanent change of station if the member then receives a stop movement order in response to a local, national, or global emergency which prevents the member from using the services provided under the contract.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3084 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3084

    To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to provide for the 
termination of telephone, multichannel video programming, and internet 
 access service contracts by servicemembers after the receipt of stop 
 movement orders due to an emergency situation, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 27, 2021

Ms. Hassan (for herself and Mr. Cramer) 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 for the 
termination of telephone, multichannel video programming, and internet 
 access service contracts by servicemembers after the receipt of stop 
 movement orders due to an emergency situation, 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 ``Emergency Relief for Servicemembers 
Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. TERMINATION OF TELEPHONE, MULTICHANNEL VIDEO PROGRAMMING, AND 
              INTERNET ACCESS SERVICE CONTRACTS BY SERVICEMEMBERS WHO 
              ENTER INTO CONTRACTS AFTER RECEIVING MILITARY ORDERS FOR 
              PERMANENT CHANGE OF STATION BUT THEN RECEIVE STOP 
              MOVEMENT ORDERS DUE TO AN EMERGENCY SITUATION.

    (a) In General.--Section 305A(a)(1) of the Servicemembers Civil 
Relief Act (50 U.S.C. 3956 (a)(1)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``after the date the servicemember receives 
        military orders to relocate for a period of not less than 90 
        days to a location that does not support the contract.'' and 
        inserting ``after--''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subparagraphs:
                    ``(A) the date the servicemember receives military 
                orders to relocate for a period of not less than 90 
                days to a location that does not support the contract; 
                or
                    ``(B) the date the servicemember, while in military 
                service, receives military orders (as defined in 
                section 305(i)) for a permanent change of station (as 
                defined in section 305(i)), thereafter enters into the 
                contract, and then after entering into the contract 
                receives a stop movement order issued by the Secretary 
                of Defense in response to a local, national, or global 
                emergency, effective for an indefinite period or for a 
                period of not less than 30 days, which prevents the 
                servicemember from using the services provided under 
                the contract.''.
    (b) Retroactive Application.--The amendments made by this Act shall 
apply to any stop movement order issued on or after March 1, 2020.
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