---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 12603"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "12603"
heading: "Attendance at inactive-duty training assemblies: commercial travel at Federal supply schedule rates"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/12603"
units:
  - "Subtitle E — Reserve Components"
  - "Part II — Personnel Generally"
  - "Chapter 1217 — Miscellaneous Rights and Benefits"
---

# §12603. Attendance at inactive-duty training assemblies: commercial travel at Federal supply schedule rates

- (a) **Federal Supply Schedule Travel.—** Commercial travel under Federal supply schedules is authorized for the travel of a [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) to the location of inactive duty training to be performed by the [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) and from that location upon completion of the training.
- (b) **Regulations.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/12521.md?p=4) of Defense shall prescribe in regulations such requirements, conditions, and restrictions for travel under the authority of [subsection (a)](#a) as the [Secretary](/usc/10/12521.md?p=4) considers appropriate. The regulations shall include policies and procedures for preventing abuses of that travel authority.
- (c) **Reimbursement Not Authorized.—** A [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) is not entitled to Government reimbursement for the cost of travel authorized under [subsection (a)](#a).
- (d) **Treatment of Transportation as Use by Military Departments.—** For the purposes of [section 501 of title 40](/usc/40/501.md), travel authorized under [subsection (a)](#a) shall be treated as transportation for the use of a military [department](/usc/10/12521.md?p=5).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 105–261, div. A, title VI, § 635(a), Oct. 17, 1998, 112 Stat. 2044; amended Pub. L. 107–217, § 3(b)(41), Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1298.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2002—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 107–217 substituted “section 501 of title 40” for “section 201(a) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 481(a))”.