Gold Star Spouses Leasing Relief Act

Bill: 115-s-3241
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA]
Introduced: 2018-07-19
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Contracts and agency

Family relationships

Military personnel and dependents
Latest action: action_date: 2018-07-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-07-19
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Gold Star Spouses Leasing Relief Act</b></p> <p>This bill amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to permit a widow or widower of a service member who died while in military service to terminate a lease of premises occupied, or intended to be occupied, by the service member or the service member's dependents for a residential, professional, business, agricultural, or similar purpose without penalty within one year of the service member's death.</p>

tv_txt: II 115th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3241 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES July 19, 2018 Ms. Warren (for herself, Mr. Portman , Mrs. Fischer , Mr. Nelson , and Mr. Jones ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs A BILL To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to provide for the termination by a spouse of a lessee of certain leases when the lessee dies while in military service.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Gold Star Spouses Leasing Relief Act . 2. Termination of leases of premises of deceased servicemembers who die while in military service Section 305(a) of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act ( 50 U.S.C. 3955 ) is amended— (1) in the subsection heading, by striking by lessee ; (2) in the heading for paragraph (1), by striking In general and inserting Termination by lessee ; and (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (3) Death of lessee The spouse of the lessee on a lease described in subsection (b)(1) may terminate the lease during the one-year period beginning on the date of the death of the lessee, if the lessee dies while in military service. .