[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1044 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1044

    To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize the Defense 
Commissary Agency to conduct a pilot program at military installations 
to be closed or subject to an adverse realignment under a base closure 
    law under which a commissary store may sell additional types of 
                              merchandise.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 23, 2011

Ms. Snowe (for herself and Ms. Collins) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize the Defense 
Commissary Agency to conduct a pilot program at military installations 
to be closed or subject to an adverse realignment under a base closure 
    law under which a commissary store may sell additional types of 
                              merchandise.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. ENHANCED COMMISSARY STORES PILOT PROGRAM.

    (a) Authority To Operate Enhanced Commissary Stores.--Subchapter II 
of chapter 147 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by inserting 
after section 2488 the following new section:
``Sec. 2488a. Enhanced commissary stores
    ``(a) Authority To Operate.--The Defense Commissary Agency--
            ``(1) shall operate an enhanced commissary store at Naval 
        Air Station, Brunswick, Maine; and
            ``(2) may operate an enhanced commissary store at such 
        other military installations designated for closure or adverse 
        realignment under a base closure law as the Defense Commissary 
        Agency considers to be appropriate.
    ``(b) Additional Categories of Merchandise.--(1) In addition to 
selling items in the merchandise categories specified in subsection (b) 
of section 2484 of this title in the manner provided by such section, 
an enhanced commissary store also may sell items in the following 
categories as commissary merchandise:
            ``(A) Alcoholic beverages.
            ``(B) Tobacco products.
            ``(C) Items in such other merchandise categories (not 
        covered by subsection (b) of section 2484 of this title) as the 
        Secretary of Defense may authorize.
    ``(2) Subsections (c) and (g) of section 2484 of this title shall 
not apply with regard to the selection, or method of sale, of 
merchandise in the categories specified in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of 
paragraph (1) or in any other merchandise category authorized under 
subparagraph (C) of such paragraph for sale in, at, or by an enhanced 
commissary store.
    ``(c) Sales Price Establishment and Surcharge.--Subsections (d) and 
(e) of section 2484 of this title shall not apply to the pricing of 
merchandise in the categories specified in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of 
paragraph (1) of subsection (b) or in any other merchandise category 
authorized under subparagraph (C) of such paragraph for sale in, at, or 
by an enhanced commissary store. Instead, the Secretary of Defense 
shall determine appropriate prices for such merchandise sold in, at, or 
by an enhanced commissary store.
    ``(d) Retention and Use of Portion of Proceeds.--(1) The Secretary 
of Defense may retain amounts equal to the difference between--
            ``(A) the retail price of merchandise in the categories 
        specified in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (1) of 
        subsection (b) and in other merchandise categories authorized 
        under subparagraph (C) of such paragraph for sale in, at, or by 
        an enhanced commissary store; and
            ``(B) the invoice cost of such merchandise.
    ``(2) The Secretary of Defense shall use amounts retained under 
paragraph (1) for an enhanced commissary store to help offset the 
operating costs of that enhanced commissary store.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
such chapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 
2488 the following new item:

``2488a. Enhanced commissary stores.''.
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