[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 99 (Thursday, June 13, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3542]
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  SA 547. Mr. BOOKER 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 XV add the following:

                 Subtitle C--Response to Ebola Outbreak

     SEC. 1531. TRANSFER AUTHORITY FOR EBOLA RESPONSE.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense may transfer 
     amounts of authorizations made available to the Department of 
     Defense for overseas contingency operations in this title for 
     fiscal year 2020 to any other authorization for that fiscal 
     year to support efforts of the United States Agency for 
     International Development, the Centers for Disease Control 
     and Prevention, and the overseas humanitarian disaster and 
     civic aid program of the Department to address the Ebola 
     outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and surrounding 
     countries.
       (b) Notification of Congress.--Not later than 15 days 
     before the date on which a transfer under subsection (a) is 
     carried out, the Secretary shall notify the appropriate 
     committees of Congress of such transfer.
       (c) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this 
     section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' 
     means--
       (1) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
     Foreign Relations, and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
     Senate; and
       (2) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
     Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on Appropriations of House 
     of Representatives.
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