To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to guarantee the right of deployed members of the Armed Forces who are elected members of State and local legislatures to vote on matters pending before such legislatures.

Amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to state that a person who is an elected member of a state or local legislature who is absent from the state or local area in compliance with military or naval orders shall not, solely by reason of that absence, be denied the right to vote on any pending legislative matter.

[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
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[H.R. 3856 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3856

To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to guarantee the right of 
 deployed members of the Armed Forces who are elected members of State 
     and local legislatures to vote on matters pending before such 
                             legislatures.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 16, 2007

 Mr. Patrick J. Murphy of Pennsylvania introduced the following bill; 
        which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to guarantee the right of 
 deployed members of the Armed Forces who are elected members of State 
     and local legislatures to vote on matters pending before such 
                             legislatures.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. RIGHT OF DEPLOYED MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES WHO ARE 
              ELECTED TO STATE AND LOCAL LEGISLATURES TO VOTE.

    (a) Guarantee of Right To Vote.--Title VII of the Servicemembers 
Civil Relief Act (50 U.S.C. App. 591 et seq.) is amended by adding at 
the end the following new section:

``SEC. 707. MEMBERSHIP IN STATE AND LOCAL LEGISLATURES.

    ``A person who is an elected member of a State or local legislature 
who is absent from the State or local area in compliance with military 
or naval orders shall not, solely by reason of that absence, be denied 
the right to vote on any matter pending before that legislature.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents in section 1(b) of 
such Act is amended by adding at the end of the items relating to title 
VII the following new item:

``707. Membership in State and local legislatures.''.
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