Protecting Families of Fallen Servicemembers Act of 2019

II 116TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION S. 2963 To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to allow certain individuals to terminate contracts for telephone, multichannel video programming, or internet access service, and for other purposes. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES DECEMBER 3, 2019 Mr. CORNYN (for himself, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. UDALL, and Mrs. BLACK- BURN) 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 allow cer- tain individuals to terminate contracts for telephone, multichannel video programming, or internet access serv- ice, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protecting Families 4 of Fallen Servicemembers Act of 2019’’. 5 VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:41 Dec 06, 2019 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S2963.IS S2963 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS 2 •S 2963 IS SEC. 2. TERMINATION OF CONTRACTS FOR TELEPHONE, 1 MULTICHANNEL VIDEO PROGRAMMING, OR 2 INTERNET ACCESS SERVICE BY CERTAIN IN- 3 DIVIDUALS UNDER SERVICEMEMBERS CIVIL 4 RELIEF ACT. 5 Section 305A(a) of the Servicemembers Civil Relief 6 Act (50 U.S.C. 3956(a)) is amended by adding at the end 7 the following new paragraph: 8 ‘‘(4) ADDITIONAL INDIVIDUALS COVERED.—For 9 purposes of this section, the following individuals 10 shall be treated as a servicemember covered by para- 11 graph (1): 12 ‘‘(A) A spouse or dependent of a service- 13 member who dies while in military service or a 14 spouse or dependent of a member of the reserve 15 components who dies while performing duty de- 16 scribed in subparagraph (C). 17 ‘‘(B) A spouse or dependent of a service- 18 member who incurs a catastrophic injury or ill- 19 ness (as that term is defined in section 439(g) 20 of title 37, United States Code), if the service- 21 member incurs the catastrophic injury or illness 22 while performing duty described in subpara- 23 graph (C). 24 ‘‘(C) A member of the reserve components 25 performing military service or performing full- 26 VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:41 Dec 06, 2019 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S2963.IS S2963 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS 3 •S 2963 IS time National Guard duty, active Guard and 1 Reserve duty, or inactive-duty training (as such 2 terms are defined in section 101(d) of title 10, 3 United States Code).’’. 4 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:41 Dec 06, 2019 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\S2963.IS S2963 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS