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 PUBLIC LAW 109–13—MAY 11, 2005

119 STAT. 245

(A) by redesignating subsection (e) as subsection (f); and (B) by inserting after subsection (d) the following new subsection (e): ‘‘(e)(1) A member covered by this subsection is any member as follows: ‘‘(A) Any member who dies as a result of one or more wounds, injuries, or illnesses incurred while serving in an operation or area that the Secretary designates, in writing, as a combat operation or a zone of combat, respectively, for purposes of this subsection. ‘‘(B) Any member who formerly served in an operation or area so designated and whose death is determined (under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense) to be the direct result of injury or illness incurred or aggravated while so serving. ‘‘(2) The additional amount of insurance under this subchapter that is provided for a member by this subsection is $150,000, except that in a case in which the amount provided for or elected by the member under subsection (a)(3)(A)(i)(I) exceeds $250,000, the additional amount of insurance under this subchapter that is provided for the member by this subsection shall be reduced to such amount as is necessary to comply with the limitation in paragraph (3). ‘‘(3) The total amount of insurance payable for a member under this subchapter may not exceed $400,000. ‘‘(4) While a member is serving in an operation or area designated as described in paragraph (1), the cost of insurance of the member under this subchapter that is attributable to $150,000 of insurance coverage shall, at the election of the Secretary concerned— ‘‘(A) be contributed as provided in section 1969(b)(2) of this title, rather through deduction or withholding from the member’s pay; or ‘‘(B) if deducted or withheld from the member’s pay, be reimbursed to the member through such mechanism as the Secretary concerned determines appropriate.’’. (2) FUNDING.—Section 1969(b) of such title is amended— (A) by inserting ‘‘(1)’’ after ‘‘(b)’’; and (B) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: ‘‘(2) For each month for which a member insured under this subchapter is serving in an operation or area designated as described by paragraph (1)(A) of section 1967(e) of this title, there may, at the election of the Secretary concerned under paragraph (4)(A) of such section, be contributed from the appropriation made for active duty pay of the uniformed service concerned an amount determined by the Secretary and certified to the Secretary concerned to be the cost of Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance which is traceable to the cost of providing insurance for the member under section 1967 of this title in the amount of $150,000.’’. (d) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 1967(a)(2)(A) of such title is amended by inserting before the period at the end the following: ‘‘, except with respect to insurance provided under paragraph (3)(A)(i)(III)’’. (e) COORDINATION WITH VGLI.—Section 1977(a) of such title is amended—

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