[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 78 (Tuesday, May 17, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S2897]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3990. Mr. BOOKER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 3896 proposed by Ms. Collins (for herself, Mr. Kirk, Mr. 
Reed, and Mr. Tester) to the bill H.R. 2577, making appropriations for 
the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, 
and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, and 
for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of title II of division B, add the following:


    prohibition on recovery of overpayment of compensation paid to 
         incarcerated individuals except in the case of fraud, 
                    misrepresentation, or bad faith

       Sec. 251. Section 5313 of title 38, United States Code, is 
     amended--
       (1) by redesignating subsection (e) as subsection (f); and
       (2) by inserting after subsection (d) the following new 
     subsection (e):
       ``(e) The Secretary may not recover from a person the 
     amount of any compensation that should have been reduced 
     under this section after the date that is 180 days after the 
     date on which such amount should have been reduced under this 
     section unless the Secretary determines that the person 
     committed fraud, misrepresentation, or bad faith that 
     resulted in such amount not being reduced.''.
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