REPORT ON LIFE INSURANCE

SEC. 635. REPORT ON LIFE INSURANCE (a) Report Required.—Not later than November 15, 1990, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Congress a report evaluating the adequacy of the current Servicemen’s Group Life Insurance program and the practicability and desirability of providing an accidental death insurance plan for aviators and other aviation crew members serving on active duty that provides for the payment of death benefits in the amount of $100,000 for death resulting directly from the performance of operational flying duty. The report shall include a legislative proposal containing the recommendations of the Secretary following such evaluation and a recommendation on the advisability of providing an accidental death insurance plan for other members of the Armed Forces on active duty in an occupational specialty characterized as hazardous. (b) Definition.—For purposes of subsection (a), the term “operational flying duty” has the meaning given to that term in section 301a(a)(6)(A) of title 37, United States Code.