[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 91 (Tuesday, June 9, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3957-S3958]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1927. Mr. ISAKSON 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, for military construction, and for 
defense activities of the Department of Energy, 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 B of title V, add the following:

     SEC. 515. AUTHORITY TO ORDER UNITS AND MEMBERS OF THE 
                   SELECTED RESERVE TO ACTIVE DUTY FOR PREPLANNED 
                   MISSIONS IN SUPPORT OF THE MILITARY 
                   DEPARTMENTS.

       (a) In General.--Subsection (a) of section 12304b of title 
     10, United States Code, is amended--
       (1) by inserting ``(1)'' before ``When the Secretary'';
       (2) in paragraph (1), as so designated--
       (A) by inserting ``or the military department'' after ``a 
     combatant command'';
       (B) by inserting ``or any individual member of the Selected 
     Reserve,'' after ``title),''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(2) Support provided under paragraph (1) may include the 
     following:
       ``(A) Support to a geographic combatant command or other 
     combatant command for which regular forces are inadequate at 
     the time such support is provided, including support to 
     training exercises sponsored by the combatant command and 
     non-combat missions related to a named operation.
       ``(B) Support to a military department for non-combat 
     missions for which regular forces are inadequate at the time 
     such support is provided, including support to training 
     exercises sponsored by the military department and non-combat 
     missions related to a named operation.''.
       (b) Limitations.--Subsection (b)(1) of such section is 
     amended--
       (1) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) and (B) as clauses 
     (i) and (ii) and redesignating the margins of such clauses, 
     as so redesignated, four ems from the left margin;

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       (2) by striking ``if--'' and inserting ``if--
       ``(A) both--'';
       (3) in clause (ii), as so redesignated, by striking the 
     period and inserting ``; or''; and
       (4) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
       ``(B) the military department to which the unit or 
     individual members are assigned reprograms funds in the 
     fiscal year in which support is provided in order to provide 
     for the manpower and associated costs of the members ordered 
     to active duty.''.
       (c) Treatment of Members.--
       (1) In general.--Such section is further amended--
       (A) by redesignating subsections (f) through (i) as 
     subsections (g) through (j), respectively; and
       (B) by inserting after subsection (e) the following new 
     subsection (f):
       ``(f) Treatment of Members.--Any member ordered to active 
     duty pursuant to this section shall be entitled while on and 
     in connection with such duty to the benefits to which members 
     of the Ready Reserve are entitled while on and in connection 
     with duty to which ordered pursuant to section 12302 of this 
     title.''.
       (2) Retired pay for non-regular service.--Section 
     12731(f)(2)(B)(i) of such title is amended by inserting ``or 
     12304b'' after ``12301(d)''.
       (3) Effective date.--The amendments made by this subsection 
     shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act, 
     and shall apply to members of the Selected Reserve ordered to 
     active duty pursuant to section 12304b of title 10, United 
     States Code, on or after that date.
       (d) Conforming Amendments.--Setion12304b of such title is 
     further amended--
       (1) in subsections (d) and (e), by inserting ``or member'' 
     after ``any unit''; and
       (2) in subsection (h), as redesignated by subsection (c)(1) 
     of this section, by inserting ``or members'' after ``which 
     units''.
       (e) Heading and Clerical Amendments.--
       (1) Heading amendment.--The heading of such section is 
     amended to read as follows:

     ``Sec. 12304b. Selected Reserve: order to active duty for 
       preplanned missions in support of the combatant commands 
       and the military departments''.

       (2) Table of sections.--The table of sections at the 
     beginning of chapter 1209 of such title is amended by 
     striking the item relating to section 12304b and inserting 
     the following new item:

``12304b. Selected Reserve: order to active duty for preplanned 
              missions in support of the combatant commands and the 
              military departments.''.
       (f) Exclusion From Discretionary Spending Limits.--The 
     Office of Management and Budget shall not include amounts 
     appropriated for manpower costs or associated costs of 
     performing duty under the amendments to section 12304b of 
     title 10, United States Code, made by this section in 
     determining whether there has been a breach of the 
     discretionary spending limits under the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 900 et seq.) 
     during any fiscal year.
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