[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 84 (Thursday, May 26, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S3310]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4256. Mr. REID (for Mr. Blumenthal) submitted an amendment 
intended to be proposed by Mr. Reid to the bill S. 2943, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2017 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 I of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1097. PARTICIPATION OF VETERANS IN TRANSITION ASSISTANCE 
                   PROGRAM OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the 
     Secretary of Defense shall enter into a memorandum of 
     understanding under which a veteran, during the one-year 
     period beginning on the date on which the veteran is 
     discharged or separates from service in the Armed Forces, may 
     participate in the Transition Assistance Program (TAP) of the 
     Department of Defense.
       (b) Counseling at Military Installations.--As part of their 
     participation in the Transition Assistance Program under 
     subsection (a), veterans may receive transition assistance 
     counseling under the program at any military installation at 
     which transition assistance counseling is being provided to 
     members of the Armed Forces under the program.
       (c) Veteran Defined.--In this section, the term ``veteran'' 
     has the meaning given that term in section 101 of title 38, 
     United States Code.
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