[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 93 (Wednesday, June 6, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3241]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2324. Mr. TESTER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2019 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 H of title V, add the following:

     SEC. 598. TRANSPORTATION OF REMAINS OF CASUALTIES; TRAVEL 
                   EXPENSES FOR NEXT OF KIN.

       (a) Transportation for Remains of a Member Who Dies Not in 
     a Theater of Combat Operations.--Section 562 of the John 
     Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
     2007 (Public Law 109-364; 10 U.S.C. 1482 note) is amended--
       (1) in the heading, by striking ``dying in a theater of 
     combat operations''; and
       (2) in subsection (a), by striking ``in a combat theater of 
     operations'' and inserting ``outside of the United States''.
       (b) Transportation for Family.--The Secretary of Defense 
     shall revise Department of Defense Instruction 1300.18 to 
     extend travel privileges via Invitational Travel 
     Authorization to family members of members of the Armed 
     Forces who die outside of the United States and whose remains 
     are returned to the United States through the mortuary 
     facility at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware.
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