[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 89 (Thursday, June 4, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S3793]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1643. Mr. McCAIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense and for military construction, to 
prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle C of title VI, add the following:

     SEC. 622. GUARANTEED TRANSPORTATION FOR NEXT OF KIN TO ATTEND 
                   TRANSFER CEREMONY OF MEMBERS OF THE ARMED 
                   FORCES WHO DIE OVERSEAS.

       Section 481f(e) of title 37, United States Code, is 
     amended--
       (1) by redesignating paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) as 
     paragraphs (3), (4), and (5), respectively; and
       (2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following new 
     paragraph (2):
       ``(2) The discretion to authorize transportation under 
     paragraph (1) shall not apply, and the Secretary of the 
     military department concerned is instead required to provide 
     such transportation, whenever the death of the member 
     overseas occurs in the line of duty in a combat or 
     humanitarian relief operation or in combat zone designated by 
     the Secretary of Defense.''.
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