[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 104 (Thursday, June 20, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S4186]
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SA 818. Mr. MORAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 764 submitted by Mr. Inhofe and intended to be proposed 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:
Strike section 1025 and insert the following:
SEC. 1025. SENSE OF SENATE ON TRANSFER OF INDIVIDUALS
DETAINED AT UNITED STATES NAVAL STATION,
GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA, TO THE UNITED STATES
TEMPORARILY FOR EMERGENCY OR CRITICAL MEDICAL
TREATMENT.
(a) In General.--It is the sense of the Senate that the
Secretary of Defense could temporarily transfer an individual
detained at Guantanamo to a Department of Defense medical
facility in the United States for the sole purpose of
providing the individual medical treatment if the Secretary
determines that--
(1) the medical treatment of the individual is necessary to
prevent death or imminent significant injury or harm to the
health of the individual;
(2) the necessary medical treatment is not available to be
provided at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba, without incurring excessive and unreasonable costs; and
(3) the Department of Defense has provided for appropriate
security measures for the custody and control of the
individual during any period in which the individual is
temporarily in the United States pursuant to such transfer.
(b) Individual Detained at Guantanamo Defined.--In this
section, the term ``individual detained at Guantanamo'' means
an individual located at United States Naval Station,
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as of October 1, 2009, who--
(1) is not a national of the United States (as defined in
section 101(a)(22) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8
U.S.C. 1101(a)(22)) or a member of the Armed Forces of the
United States; and
(2) is--
(A) in the custody or under the control of the Department
of Defense; or
(B) otherwise detained at United States Naval Station,
Guantanamo Bay.
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