2011 U.S. Code
Title 37 - Pay and Allowances of the Uniformed Services
Chapter 8 - TRAVEL AND TRANSPORTATION ALLOWANCES (§§ 451 - 495)
Subchapter III - TRAVEL AND TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITIES-OLD LAW (§§ 471 - 495)
Section 481a - Travel and transportation allowances: travel performed in connection with convalescent leave

(a) Under uniform regulations prescribed by the Secretaries concerned, a member of a uniformed service is entitled to travel and transportation allowances for travel from his place of medical treatment in the continental United States to a place selected by him and approved by the Secretary concerned, and return, when the Secretary concerned determines that the member is traveling in connection with authorized leave for convalescence from illness or injury incurred while the member was eligible for the receipt of hostile fire pay under section 310 of this title.

(b) The allowances prescribed under this section may not be at rates more than the rates authorized under section 474(d)(1) of this title. Authorized travel under this section is performed in a duty status.

(c) No travel and transportation allowance may be provided under this section for travel that is authorized after the travel authorities transition expiration date.

(Added Pub. L. 90–207, §9(1), Dec. 16, 1967, 81 Stat. 655, §411a; renumbered §481a and amended Pub. L. 112–81, div. A, title VI, §631(d)(2), (e)(15), (f)(4)(A), Dec. 31, 2011, 125 Stat. 1460, 1463, 1465.)

Section 631(f)(4)(A) of Pub. L. 112–81, which directed that this title be amended by conforming any references to sections of this title which were transferred and redesignated by “subsection (c)” of section 631, was executed by conforming the references to those sections as transferred and redesignated by subsection (d) of section 631, to reflect the probable intent of Congress.

2011—Pub. L. 112–81, §631(d)(2), renumbered section 411a of this title as this section.

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 112–81, §631(f)(4)(A), substituted “474” for “404”. See Codification note above.

Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 112–81, §631(e)(15), added subsec. (c).

Section effective Oct. 1, 1967, see section 7 of Pub. L. 90–207, set out as an Effective Date of 1967 Amendment note under section 203 of this title.