[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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