TREATMENT OF ACCRUED LEAVE.

SEC. 637. TREATMENT OF ACCRUED LEAVE. (a) Members Who Die While on Active Duty.—Subsection (d) of section 501 of title 37, United States Code, is amended— (1) by inserting “(1)” after “(d)”; (2) by striking out “However,” in the third sentence and inserting in lieu thereof “Except as provided in paragraph (2),”; and (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: “(2) In the case of a member of the uniformed services who dies as a result of an injury or illness incurred while serving on active duty in support of a contingency operation, the limitations in the second sentence of subsection (b)(3), subsection (f), and the second sentence of subsection (g) shall not apply with respect to a payment made under this subsection for leave accrued during the contingency operation.”. (b) Other Members.—Subsection (b) of that section is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: “(5) The limitation in the second sentence of paragraph (3) and in subsection (f) shall not apply with respect to leave accrued— “(A) by a member of a reserve component while serving on active duty in support of a contingency operation; “(B) by a member of the armed forces in the Retired Reserve while serving on active duty in support of a contingency operation; or “(C) by a retired member of the Regular Army, Regular Navy, Regular Air Force, or Regular Marine Corps or a member of the Fleet Reserve or Fleet Marine Corps Reserve while the member 105 STAT. 1384is serving on active duty in support of a contingency operation.”.