Provide for the automatic extension of residential leases during the deployment of the lessee

The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (50 U.S.C. 3901 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 305A (50 U.S.C. 3956) the following new section:

Subject to subsection (b), the term of a residential lease of premises occupied or intended to be occupied by a servicemember that shall end during a deployment of such servicemember shall be extended on a monthly basis through the month in which the day that is 30 days after the end of such deployment occurs.

A servicemember described in subsection (a) may, in writing to the lessor—

(1) waive the protection under subsection (a) before the first extension of the term; or

(2) elect to end a term extended under subsection (a) at the end of a month of such extended term.

In this section, the term deployment means the movement or mobilization of a servicemember to a location for a period of longer than 30 days and not longer than 540 days pursuant to temporary or permanent official orders—

(1) that are designated as unaccompanied;

(2) for which dependent travel is not authorized; or

(3) that otherwise do not permit the movement of family members to that location.

The table of contents in section 1 of such Act (50 U.S.C. 3901) is amended by inserting, after the item relating to section 305A, the following new item: