To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to provide for the automatic extension of residential leases during the deployment of the lessee, and for other purposes.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 10313 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                               H. R. 10313

    To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to provide for the 
automatic extension of residential leases during the deployment of the 
                    lessee, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 5, 2024

 Ms. Sherrill introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to provide for the 
automatic extension of residential leases during the deployment of the 
                    lessee, 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. AUTOMATIC EXTENSION OF RESIDENTIAL LEASE DURING DEPLOYMENT 
              BY LESSEE UNDER SERVICEMEMBERS CIVIL RELIEF ACT.

    (a) In General.--The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (50 U.S.C. 
3901 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 305A (50 U.S.C. 
3956) the following new section:

``SEC. 305B. EXTENSION OF RESIDENTIAL LEASE.

    ``(a) Automatic Extension.--Subject to subsection (b), the term of 
a residential lease of premises occupied or intended to be occupied by 
a servicemember that shall end during a deployment of such 
servicemember shall be extended on a monthly basis through the month in 
which the day that is 30 days after the end of such deployment occurs.
    ``(b) Waiver.--A servicemember described in subsection (a) may, in 
writing to the lessor--
            ``(1) waive the protection under subsection (a) before the 
        first extension of the term; or
            ``(2) elect to end a term extended under subsection (a) at 
        the end of a month of such extended term.
    ``(c) Deployment Defined.--In this section, the term `deployment' 
means the movement or mobilization of a servicemember to a location for 
a period of longer than 30 days and not longer than 540 days pursuant 
to temporary or permanent official orders--
            ``(1) that are designated as unaccompanied;
            ``(2) for which dependent travel is not authorized; or
            ``(3) that otherwise do not permit the movement of family 
        members to that location.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--The table of contents in section 1 of 
such Act (50 U.S.C. 3901) is amended by inserting, after the item 
relating to section 305A, the following new item:

``305B. Extension of residential lease.''.
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