[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 142 (Tuesday, September 5, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S4946]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 788. Mr. DAINES submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him 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:

       At the end of section 1045, add the following:
       (b) Postponement of Deadline for Completion of 
     Conversion.--Notwithstanding the deadline otherwise specified 
     in paragraph (1) of section 1053(a) of the National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016, as amended by this 
     section, for the completion of the conversion of military 
     technician positions as described in that subsection, the 
     deadline for the completion of such conversion shall be 180 
     days after the date on which the Secretary of Defense submits 
     to Congress the report required by section 1067.

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