S 2689
110th Congress
Senate
Armed Forces and National Security
Families
Health
Mental health services
Military dependents
Military medicine
Military transportation
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
A bill to amend section 411h of title 37, United States Code, to provide travel and transportation allowances for family members of members of the uniformed services with serious inpatient psychiatric conditions.
Introduced: March 4, 2008
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Everywhere this bill has been
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Introduced
In committee
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 4, 2008
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
Mar 4, 2008
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Authorizes the provision by the Secretary of the military department concerned of a travel and transportation allowance for up to three family members of a member of the Armed Forces who is hospitalized in a military medical facility in the United States for a serious psychiatric condition, as long as such transportation is provided pursuant to travel orders issued upon the recommendation of a physician that the family's presence would be helpful and beneficial to the member's treatment and recovery.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1