Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Military Spouse Career Support Act of 2023”.
Military Spouse Career Support Act of 2023
A BILL
To amend title 37, United States Code, to expand eligibility for reimbursement of qualified licensure, certification, and business relocation costs incurred by military spouses.
Sec. 2 Expansion of eligibility for reimbursement of qualified licensure, certification, and business relocation costs incurred by military spouses
Section 453(g) of title 37, United States Code, is amended—
in the subsection heading, by striking “or business costs” and all that follows through “assignment” and inserting “and business costs”;
in paragraph (1)—
in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking “or qualified business costs” and inserting “and qualified business costs”;
by amending subparagraph (A) to read as follows:
“(A) the member relocates to a new jurisdiction or geographic area as the result of—
“(i) an assignment to a duty station;
“(ii) a reassignment, either as a result of a permanent change of station or permanent change of assignment, between duty stations; or
“(iii) a transfer from a regular component of a uniformed service into the Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve of a uniformed service, if the member is authorized a final move from the last duty station to the new jurisdiction or geographic area; and”
in subparagraph (B), by striking “reassignment” and inserting “relocation”;
in paragraph (2), by striking “reassignment” both places it appears and inserting “relocation”;
in paragraph (4)—
in subparagraph (A), by striking “movement described in” and all that follows through the semicolon and inserting “the member’s relocation described in paragraph (1);”; and
in subparagraph (B), by striking “reassignment” and inserting “relocation”; and
in paragraph (5)—
in subparagraph (A), by striking “a movement described in” and all that follows through the semicolon and inserting “the member’s relocation described in paragraph (1);”; and
in subparagraph (B), by striking “reassignment” and inserting “relocation”.