Reserve Forces Travel Fairness Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill amends title 37 travel allowance rules. When a uniformed service member travels more than 150 miles for covered training or duty and the member’s actual and necessary expenses include renting a motor vehicle, the allowance must reimburse rental vehicle costs for the full training or duty period and for a travel day immediately before or after that period. The Secretary of Defense must amend the Joint Travel Regulations for the Uniformed Services within 180 days to implement the reimbursement rule.
Who Benefits and How
Reserve-component members, National Guard members, uniformed service members traveling long distances for training, and members who need rental cars at remote duty locations benefit from reimbursement for rental vehicle costs over the full duty period and adjacent travel day.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The Department of Defense, finance offices, travel administrators, unit travel approvers, and federal taxpayers must amend the Joint Travel Regulations, process rental-car reimbursement claims, verify distance and necessity, and pay additional travel costs.
Key Provisions
- Requires reimbursement for rental motor vehicle costs when a uniformed service member travels more than 150 miles for qualifying training or duty.
- Covers rental vehicle costs during the entire training or duty period and one adjacent travel day before or after.
- Directs the Defense Department to amend the Joint Travel Regulations within 180 days.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires the Defense Department to amend the Joint Travel Regulations within 180 days so reserve-component or uniformed service members traveling more than 150 miles for qualifying training or duty are reimbursed for necessary rental motor vehicle costs during the entire training or duty period and an adjacent travel day before or after.
Key Policy Areas
Defense, Military Personnel, Transportation
Primary Purpose
Requires the Defense Department to amend the Joint Travel Regulations within 180 days so reserve-component or uniformed service members traveling more than 150 miles for qualifying training or duty are reimbursed for necessary rental motor vehicle costs during the entire training or duty period and an adjacent travel day before or after.
Policy Domains
Bill-wide scope
Identified Gains
- Reserve-component members
- National Guard members
- Uniformed service members
- Long-distance training travelers
Identified Costs
- Department of Defense
- Finance offices
- Travel administrators
- Unit travel approvers
- Federal taxpayers
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
Introduced in House
Mr. Tony Gonzales of Texas (for himself, Mr. Moylan, Mr. …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
National Guard members, Reserve-component members, Uniformed service members
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "JTR"
- → Joint Travel Regulations
- "primary_beneficiaries"
- → Reserve-component members, National Guard members, Uniformed service members, Long-distance training travelers
- "primary_burden_bearers"
- → Department of Defense, Finance offices, Travel administrators, Unit travel approvers, Federal taxpayers
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