S.Amdt. 385

SA 385. Ms. WARREN (for herself, Mr. Portman, Mr. Tillis, Ms. Sinema,
Mr. Tester, and Mrs. Fischer) submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed by her to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for
fiscal year 2020 for military activities of the Department of Defense,
for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department
of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal
year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:

At appropriate place in title X, insert the following:

SEC. ___. TERMINATION OF LEASES OF PREMISES AND MOTOR
VEHICLES OF SERVICEMEMBERS WHO INCUR
CATASTROPHIC INJURY OR ILLNESS OR DIE WHILE IN
MILITARY SERVICE.

(a) Catastrophic Injuries and Illnesses.--Subsection (a) of
section 305 of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (50 U.S.C.
3955), as amended by section 301 of the Veterans Benefits and
Transition Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-407), is further
amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
``(4) Catastrophic injury or illness of lessee.--The spouse
of the lessee on a lease described in subsection (b) may
terminate the lease during the one-year period beginning on
the date on which the lessee incurs a catastrophic injury or
illness (as that term is defined in section 439(g) of title
37, United States Code), if the lessee incurs the
catastrophic injury or illness during a period of military
service or while performing full-time National Guard duty,
active Guard and Reserve duty, or inactive-duty training (as
such terms are defined in section 101(d) of title 10, United
States Code).''.
(b) Deaths.--Paragraph (3) of such subsection is amended by
striking ``in subsection (b)(1)'' and inserting ``in
subsection (b)''.
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