[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 98 (Wednesday, June 12, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3407]
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  SA 318. Mr. BOOZMAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2020 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 title VI, add the following:

                       Subtitle F--Other Matters

     SEC. 651. INCLUSION OF CERTAIN VETERANS ON TEMPORARY 
                   DISABILITY OR PERMANENT DISABLED RETIREMENT 
                   LISTS IN MILITARY ADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAMS.

       (a) Inclusion of Certain Veterans.--Subsection (a)(1) of 
     section 2564a of title 10, United States Code, is amended by 
     striking ``for members of the armed forces who'' and all that 
     follows through the period at the end and inserting the 
     following: ``for--
       ``(A) any member of the armed forces who is eligible to 
     participate in adaptive sports because of an injury, illness, 
     or wound incurred in the line of duty in the armed forces; 
     and
       ``(B) any veteran (as defined in section 101 of title 38), 
     during the one-year period following the veteran's date of 
     separation, who--
       ``(i) is on the Temporary Disability Retirement List or 
     Permanently Disabled Retirement List;
       ``(ii) is eligible to participate in adaptive sports 
     because of an injury, illness, or wound incurred in the line 
     of duty in the armed forces; and
       ``(iii) was enrolled in the program authorized under this 
     section prior to the veteran's date of separation.''.
       (b) Conforming Amendment.--Subsection (b) of such section 
     is amended by inserting ``and veterans'' after ``members''.
       (c) Clerical Amendments.--
       (1) Heading amendment.--The heading of such section is 
     amended to read as follows:

     ``Sec. 2564a. Provision of assistance for adaptive sports 
       programs: members of the armed forces; certain veterans''.

       (2) Table of section.--The table of sections at the 
     beginning of chapter 152 of such title is amended by striking 
     the item relating to section 2564a and inserting the 
     following new item:

``2564a. Provision of assistance for adaptive sports programs: members 
              of the armed forces; certain veterans.''.
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