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115th Congress(2017-2018)
Gold Star Spouses Leasing Relief Act
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Passed House on Jul 24, 2018
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H. R. 5882 (Engrossed-in-House)


115th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 5882

AN ACT

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.

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 “Gold Star Spouses Leasing Relief Act”.

SEC. 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 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).”.

Passed the House of Representatives July 24, 2018.

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Clerk.  

115th CONGRESS
     2d Session
H. R. 5882
AN ACT
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.