[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1880 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1880

   To amend title 37, United States Code, to expand eligibility for 
   reimbursement of qualified licensure, certification, and business 
             relocation costs incurred by military spouses.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 8, 2023

Mr. Ossoff (for himself and Mr. Schmitt) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 37, United States Code, to expand eligibility for 
   reimbursement of qualified licensure, certification, and business 
             relocation costs incurred by military spouses.

    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 ``Military Spouse Career Support Act 
of 2023''.

SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF ELIGIBILITY FOR REIMBURSEMENT OF QUALIFIED 
              LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION, AND BUSINESS RELOCATION COSTS 
              INCURRED BY MILITARY SPOUSES.

    Section 453(g) of title 37, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in the subsection heading, by striking ``or Business 
        Costs'' and all that follows through ``Assignment'' and 
        inserting ``and Business Costs'';
            (2) in paragraph (1)--
                    (A) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by 
                striking ``or qualified business costs'' and inserting 
                ``and qualified business costs'';
                    (B) by amending subparagraph (A) to read as 
                follows:
                    ``(A) the member relocates to a new jurisdiction or 
                geographic area as the result of--
                            ``(i) an assignment to a duty station;
                            ``(ii) a reassignment, either as a result 
                        of a permanent change of station or permanent 
                        change of assignment, between duty stations; or
                            ``(iii) a transfer from a regular component 
                        of a uniformed service into the Selected 
                        Reserve of the Ready Reserve of a uniformed 
                        service, if the member is authorized a final 
                        move from the last duty station to the new 
                        jurisdiction or geographic area; and''; and
                    (C) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
                ``reassignment'' and inserting ``relocation'';
            (3) in paragraph (2), by striking ``reassignment'' both 
        places it appears and inserting ``relocation'';
            (4) in paragraph (4)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``movement 
                described in'' and all that follows through the 
                semicolon and inserting ``the member's relocation 
                described in paragraph (1);''; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
                ``reassignment'' and inserting ``relocation''; and
            (5) in paragraph (5)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``a movement 
                described in'' and all that follows through the 
                semicolon and inserting ``the member's relocation 
                described in paragraph (1);''; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
                ``reassignment'' and inserting ``relocation''.
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