[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 118 (Sunday, July 26, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5717-S5718]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2363. Ms. MURKOWSKI submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by her to the bill H.R. 22, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
to exempt employees with health coverage under TRICARE or the Veterans 
Administration from being taken into account for purposes of 
determining the employers to which the employer mandate applies under 
the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; which was ordered to 
lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. MULTIYEAR PROCUREMENT AUTHORITY FOR POLAR 
                   ICEBREAKERS.

       (a) Multiyear Procurement.--Subject to section 2306b of 
     title 10, United States Code, the Secretary of the Navy shall 
     enter into multiyear contracts for the procurement of two 
     heavy polar icebreakers and any systems and equipment 
     associated with those vessels.
       (b) Authority for Advance Procurement.--The Secretary of 
     the Navy may enter into one or more contracts, beginning in 
     fiscal year 2016, for advance procurement associated with the 
     vessels, systems, and equipment for which authorization to 
     enter into a multiyear contract is provided under subsection 
     (a).
       (c) Condition for Out-year Contract Payments.--A contract 
     entered into under subsection (a) shall provide that any 
     obligation of the United States to make a payment under the 
     contract for a fiscal year after fiscal year 2016 is subject 
     to the availability of appropriations or funds for that 
     purpose for such later fiscal year.

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       (d) Memorandum of Agreement.--Not later than 180 days after 
     the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the 
     Navy and the Secretary of the Department in which the Coast 
     Guard is operating shall enter into a memorandum of agreement 
     establishing a process by which the Coast Guard, in 
     concurrence with the Navy, shall--
       (1) identify the vessel specifications, capabilities, 
     systems, equipment, and other details required for the design 
     of heavy polar icebreakers capable of fulfilling Navy and 
     Coast Guard mission requirements, with the Coast Guard, as 
     the sole operator of United States Government polar 
     icebreaking assets, retaining final decision authority in the 
     establishment of vessel requirements;
       (2) oversee the construction of heavy polar icebreakers 
     authorized to be procured under this section; and
       (3) to the extent not adequately addressed in the 1965 
     Revised Memorandum of Agreement between the Department of the 
     Navy and the Department of the Treasury on the Operation of 
     Icebreakers, transfer heavy polar icebreakers procured 
     through contracts authorized under this section from the Navy 
     to the Coast Guard to be maintained and operated by the Coast 
     Guard.
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