1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Taylor Morris Act”.
Taylor Morris Act
A BILL
To amend title 38, United States Code, to remove the maximum payment amount for certain qualified losses under the Traumatic Injury Protection under the Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance program.
2. Removal of maximum payment amounts for certain qualified losses under Traumatic Injury Protection under Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance program
Section 1980A(d) of title 38, United States Code, is amended—
in paragraph (1), by striking “and the maximum payment” and inserting “and, except as provided by paragraph (3)(A), the maximum”; and
by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
“(3)
“(A) The maximum payment amount described in paragraph (1) shall not apply to a qualifying loss directly caused by a traumatic event described in subparagraph (B). The Secretary shall determine the payment schedule for such qualifying losses as the Secretary determines appropriate without regard to such maximum payment amount.
“(B) A traumatic event described in this subparagraph is one of the following:
“(i) Armed conflict.
“(ii) Training under conditions simulating armed conflict.
“(iii) Hazardous service.
“(iv) A traumatic event caused through an instrumentality of war.”