To ensure that the travel and transportation allowances provided in connection with rest and recuperative…

Full title

To ensure that the travel and transportation allowances provided in connection with rest and recuperative leave granted to a member of the Armed Forces serving in Iraq or Afghanistan cover travel to and from the permanent duty station or home of record of the member, not simply to and from a port of entry in the United States.

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R HensarlingSponsor

42 cosponsors · 12 D, 30 R

14 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Sep 30, 2003

Directs the Secretary of Defense, in the case of a member of the armed forces serving outside the United States in Operations Iraqi Freedom or Enduring Freedom who is granted rest and recuperative leave and provided authorized travel and transportation allowances, to pay the member for transportation, or provide transportation for the member, not only between the overseas duty location and the currently authorized locations (a vacation site or a location in the United States), but, at the request of the member, between the currently authorized locations and the member's permanent duty station or home. Makes such allowance retroactive from September 20, 2003.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov

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Official title: To ensure that the travel and transportation allowances provided in connection with rest and recuperative leave granted to a member of the Armed Forces serving in Iraq or Afghanistan cover travel to and from the permanent duty station or home of record of the member, not simply to and from a port of entry in the United States.

Latest action (Oct 10, 2003): Referred to the Subcommittee on Total Force.

Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security · Origin: House · Introduced: Sep 30, 2003

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No recorded floor vote found.