[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 144 (Thursday, September 7, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S5069]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 837. Mrs. MURRAY 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:

       At the end of part II subtitle C of title VI, add the 
     following:

     SEC. ___. RESTORATION OF STATES RIGHTS OVER THE DIVISION OF 
                   MILITARY PENSIONS BY COURT ORDER.

       (a) In General.--Section 1408(a)(4) of title 10, United 
     States Code, is amended--
       (1) by striking subparagraph (B); and
       (2) by redesignating subparagraphs (C) and (D) as 
     subpargraphs (B) and (C), respectively.
       (b) Application.--The amendments made by subsection (a) 
     shall apply with respect to any division of property as part 
     of a final decree of divorce, dissolution, annulment, or 
     legal separation involving a member of the Armed Forces to 
     which section 1408 of title 10, United States Code, applies 
     that becomes final after the date of the enactment of this 
     Act.
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