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[CITE: 37USC411b]

 
         TITLE 37--PAY AND ALLOWANCES OF THE UNIFORMED SERVICES
 
                          CHAPTER 7--ALLOWANCES
 
Sec. 411b. Travel and transportation allowances: travel 
        performed in connection with leave between consecutive overseas 
        tours
        
    (a)(1) Under uniform regulations prescribed by the Secretaries 
concerned, a member of a uniformed service stationed outside the 48 
contiguous States and the District of Columbia who is ordered to a 
consecutive tour of duty at the same duty station or who is ordered to 
made a change of permanent station to another duty station outside the 
48 contiguous States and the District of Columbia may be paid travel and 
transportation allowances in connection with authorized leave from his 
last duty station to a place approved by the Secretary concerned, or his 
designee, or to a place no farther distant than his home of record and 
from that place to his designated post of duty. Such allowances may be 
paid for the member and for the dependents of the member who are 
authorized to, and do, accompany him at his duty stations.
    (2) Under the regulations referred to in paragraph (1), a member may 
defer the travel for which the member is paid travel and transportation 
allowances under such paragraph until not more than one year after the 
date on which the member begins the consecutive tour of duty at the same 
duty station or reports to another duty station under the order 
involved, as the case may be. If the member is unable to undertake the 
travel before the end of such one-year period as a result of duty in 
connection with a contingency operation, the member may defer the travel 
for one additional year beginning on the date the duty of the member in 
connection with the contingency operation ends.
    (b) The allowances prescribed under this section may not exceed the 
rate authorized under section 404(d) of this title. Authorized travel 
under this section is performed in a duty status.

(Added Pub. L. 93-213, Sec. 1(1), Dec. 28, 1973, 87 Stat. 910; amended 
Pub. L. 97-60, title I, Sec. 125, Oct. 14, 1981, 95 Stat. 1003; Pub. L. 
99-145, title VI, Sec. 615(a), Nov. 8, 1985, 99 Stat. 641; Pub. L. 100-
26, Sec. 8(d)(8), Apr. 21, 1987, 101 Stat. 286; Pub. L. 100-180, div. A, 
title VI, Sec. 614(d)(1), (2), Dec. 4, 1987, 101 Stat. 1095; Pub. L. 
102-190, div. A, title VI, Sec. 624, Dec. 5, 1991, 105 Stat. 1379; Pub. 
L. 104-201, div. A, title VI, Sec. 623(a), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 
2548.)


                               Amendments

    1996--Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 104-201 inserted at end ``If the 
member is unable to undertake the travel before the end of such one-year 
period as a result of duty in connection with a contingency operation, 
the member may defer the travel for one additional year beginning on the 
date the duty of the member in connection with the contingency operation 
ends.''
    1991--Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 102-190 amended par. (2) generally. 
Prior to amendment, par. (2) read as follows: ``If, because of military 
necessity, a member authorized travel and transportation allowances 
under this subsection is denied leave between the two tours of duty 
outside the 48 contiguous States and the District of Columbia, the 
member shall be authorized to use such travel and transportation 
allowances from his current duty station at the time the member is first 
granted leave--
        ``(A) which is to be taken away from the member's permanent duty 
    station; and
        ``(B) for which a travel and transportation allowance is not 
    otherwise authorized.''
    1987--Pub. L. 100-180, Sec. 614(d)(2), amended section catchline 
generally, substituting ``leave between consecutive overseas tours'' for 
``certain leave''.
    Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100-26 substituted ``48'' for ``forty-eight'' 
wherever appearing.
    Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 100-180, Sec. 614(d)(1), substituted ``the 
time the member is first granted leave--'' for ``the first time the 
member is granted leave.'' and added subpars. (A) and (B).
    1985--Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 99-145 struck out ``if he is a member 
without dependents,'' after ``home of record'', struck out ``, if either 
his last duty station or his designated post of duty is a restricted 
area in which dependents are not authorized'' after ``post of duty'' in 
first sentence, and inserted ``such allowances may be paid for the 
member and for the dependents of the member who are authorized to, and 
do, accompany him at his duty stations.''
    1981--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 97-60 designated existing provisions as 
par. (1), inserted ``who is ordered to a consecutive tour of duty at the 
same duty station or'' after ``District of Columbia'', and added par. 
(2).


                    Effective Date of 1996 Amendment

    Section 623(b) of Pub. L. 104-201 provided that: ``The amendment 
made by subsection (a) [amending this section] shall take effect as of 
November 1, 1995.''


                    Effective Date of 1985 Amendment

    Section 615(b) of Pub. L. 99-145 provided that: ``The amendments 
made by subsection (a) [amending this section] shall apply with respect 
to orders to change a permanent station that are effective after 
September 30, 1985.''
