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37 U.S.C. § 463 — Programs of compliance; electronic processing of travel claims
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**(a) Programs of Compliance.—** The administering Secretaries shall provide for compliance with the requirements of this chapter through programs of compliance established and maintained for that purpose.
**(b) Elements.—** The programs of compliance under subsection (a) shall—
(1) minimize the provision of benefits under this chapter based on inaccurate claims, unauthorized claims, overstated or inflated claims, and multiple claims for the same benefits through the electronic verification of travel claims on a near-time basis and such other means as the administering Secretaries may establish for purposes of the programs of compliance; and
(2) ensure that benefits provided under this chapter do not exceed reasonable or actual and necessary expenses of travel claimed or reasonable allowances based on commercial travel rates.
**(c) Electronic Processing of Travel Claims.—**
(1) By not later than the date that is five years after the date of the enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, any travel claim under this chapter shall be processed electronically.
(2) The administering Secretary, or the Secretary’s designee, may waive the requirement in paragraph (1) with respect to a particular claim in the interests of the department concerned.
(3) The electronic processing of claims under this subsection shall be subject to the regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense under [section 464 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title37-section464&num=0&edition=prelim) which shall apply uniformly to all members of the uniformed services and, to the extent practicable, to all other authorized travelers.
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**(a) Programs of Compliance.—** The administering Secretaries shall provide for compliance with the requirements of this chapter through programs of compliance established and maintained for that purpose.
**(b) Elements.—** The programs of compliance under subsection (a) shall—
(1) minimize the provision of benefits under this chapter based on inaccurate claims, unauthorized claims, overstated or inflated claims, and multiple claims for the same benefits through the electronic verification of travel claims on a near-time basis and such other means as the administering Secretaries may establish for purposes of the programs of compliance; and
(2) ensure that benefits provided under this chapter do not exceed reasonable or actual and necessary expenses of travel claimed or reasonable allowances based on commercial travel rates.
**(c) Electronic Processing of Travel Claims.—**
(1) By not later than the date that is five years after the date of the enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, any travel claim under this chapter shall be processed electronically.
(2) The administering Secretary, or the Secretary’s designee, may waive the requirement in paragraph (1) with respect to a particular claim in the interests of the department concerned.
(3) The electronic processing of claims under this subsection shall be subject to the regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense under [section 464 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title37-section464&num=0&edition=prelim) which shall apply uniformly to all members of the uniformed services and, to the extent practicable, to all other authorized travelers.
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This subchapter and subchapter I shall be administered under terms, rates, conditions, and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense in consultation with the other administering Secretaries for members of the uniformed services. Such regulations shall be uniform for the Department of Defense and shall apply as uniformly as practicable to the uniformed services under the jurisdiction of the other administering Secretaries.
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**(a) Definitions Relating to Persons.—** In this subchapter and subchapter II:
(1) The term “administering Secretary” or “administering Secretaries” means the following:
(A) The Secretary of Defense, with respect to the armed forces (including the Coast Guard when it is operating as a service in the Navy).
(B) The Secretary of Homeland Security, with respect to the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Navy.
(C) The Secretary of Commerce, with respect to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
(D) The Secretary of Health and Human Services, with respect to the Public Health Service.
(2) The term “authorized traveler” means a person who is authorized travel and transportation allowances when performing official travel ordered or authorized by the administering Secretary. Such term includes the following:
(A) A member of the uniformed services.
(B) A family member of a member of the uniformed services.
(C) A person acting as an escort or attendant for a member or family member who is traveling on official travel or is traveling with the remains of a deceased member or as an escort or attendant for dependents of a member for necessary travel performed not later than one year after the member is unable to accompany the dependents who are incapable of traveling alone.
(D) A person who participates in a military funeral honors detail.
(E) A Senior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps cadet or midshipman.
(F) An applicant or rejected applicant for enlistment.
(G) Any person whose employment or service is considered directly related to a Government official activity or function under regulations prescribed under [section 464 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title37-section
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TITLE 37—PAY AND ALLOWANCES OF THE UNIFORMED
SERVICES
§ 461
(2) REFUND.—The term ‘‘refund’’ includes
miscellaneous receipts credited to the Depart-
ment identified as a refund, rebate, repay-
ment, or other similar amounts collected.
(Added Pub. L. 116–92, div. A, title VI, § 606(a),
Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 1424.)
SUBCHAPTER II—ADMINISTRATIVE
PROVISIONS
§ 461. Relationship to other travel and transpor-
tation authorities
An authorized traveler may not be paid travel
and transportation allowances or receive travel-
in-kind and transportation-in-kind, or a com-
bination thereof, under both subchapter I and
subchapter III for official travel performed
under a single or related travel and transpor-
tation order or authorization by the admin-
istering Secretary.
(Added Pub. L. 112–81, div. A, title VI, § 631(b),
Dec. 31, 2011, 125 Stat. 1459.)
§ 462. Travel and transportation allowances paid
to members that are unauthorized or in ex-
cess of authorized amounts: requirement for
repayment
(a) REPAYMENT REQUIRED.—Except as provided
in subsection (b), a member of the uniformed
services or other person who is paid travel and
transportation allowances under subchapter I
shall repay to the United States any amount of
such payment that is determined to be unau-
thorized or in excess of the applicable author-
ized amount.
(b) EXCEPTION.—The regulations prescribed
under section 464 of this title shall specify pro-
cedures
for
determining
the
circumstances
under which an exception to repayment other-
wise required by subsection (a) may be granted.
(c) EFFECT OF BANKRUPTCY.—An obligation to
repay the United States under this section is,
for all purposes, a debt owed the United States.
A discharge in bankruptcy under title 11 does
not discharge
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