[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 127 (Thursday, July 27, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4528-S4529]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 536. Mrs. CAPITO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
her to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2018 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:


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       At the end of subtitle E of title V, add the following:

     SEC. ___. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS TO DISESTABLISH SENIOR 
                   RESERVE OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS PROGRAMS.

       No amounts authorized to be appropriated by this Act may be 
     used to--
       (1) disestablish, or prepare to disestablish, a Senior 
     Reserve Officers' Training Corps program in accordance with 
     Department of Defense Instruction Number 1215.08, dated June 
     26, 2006; or
       (2) close, downgrade from host to extension center, or 
     place on probation a Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps 
     program in accordance with the information paper of the 
     Department of the Army titled ``Army Senior Reserve Officers 
     Training Corps (SROTC) Program Review and Criteria'' and 
     dated January 27, 2014, or any successor information paper or 
     policy of the Department of the Army.
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