---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 12604"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "12604"
heading: "Billeting in Department of Defense facilities: Reserves attending inactive-duty training"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/12604"
units:
  - "Subtitle E — Reserve Components"
  - "Part II — Personnel Generally"
  - "Chapter 1217 — Miscellaneous Rights and Benefits"
---

# §12604. Billeting in Department of Defense facilities: Reserves attending inactive-duty training

- (a) **Authority for Billeting on Same Basis as Active Duty Members Traveling Under Orders.—** The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe regulations authorizing a [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) traveling to [inactive-duty training](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-7) at a location more than 50 miles from that [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6)’s residence to be eligible for billeting in [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense [facilities](/usc/10/227.md?p=b-2) on the same basis and to the same extent as a [member](/usc/10/1408.md?p=a-5) of the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4) on [active duty](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-1) who is traveling under orders away from the [member](/usc/10/1408.md?p=a-5)’s permanent duty station.
- (b) **Proof of Reason for Travel.—** The Secretary shall include in the regulations the means for confirming a [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6)’s eligibility for billeting under [subsection (a)](#a).
- (c) **Lodging in Kind.—**
  - (1) In the case of a [member](/usc/10/1408.md?p=a-5) of a [reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) component performing [active duty](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-1) for training or [inactive-duty training](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-7) who is not otherwise entitled to travel and transportation allowances in connection with such duty, the [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-9) may reimburse the [member](/usc/10/1408.md?p=a-5) for housing service charge expenses incurred by the [member](/usc/10/1408.md?p=a-5) in occupying transient government housing during the performance of such duty. If transient government housing is unavailable or inadequate, the [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-9) may provide the [member](/usc/10/1408.md?p=a-5) with lodging in kind.
  - (2) Any payment or other benefit under this subsection shall be provided in accordance with regulations prescribed by the [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-9).
  - (3) The Secretary may [pay](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-15) service charge expenses under [paragraph (1)](#c-1) and expenses of providing lodging in kind under such paragraph out of [funds](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) appropriated for operation and maintenance for the [reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) component concerned. Use of a Government charge card is authorized for payment of these expenses.
  - (4) Decisions regarding the availability or adequacy of government housing at a [military installation](/usc/10/183a.md?p=h-7) under [paragraph (1)](#c-1) shall be made by the [installation](/usc/10/2920.md?p=h-5) commander.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [[div. A], title VI, § 663(a)(1)], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–168; amended Pub. L. 117–81, div. A, title VI, § 603(a)(1), Dec. 27, 2021, 135 Stat. 1765.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2021—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 117–81 added subsec. (c).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [[div. A], title VI, § 663(b)], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–168, provided that: “Section 12604 of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), shall apply with respect to periods of inactive-duty training beginning more than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act [Oct. 30, 2000].”