[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 193 (Wednesday, November 3, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S7757]
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  SA 4271. Mr. REED (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) submitted an amendment 
intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and 
intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2022 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 B of title VII, insert the 
     following:

     SEC. 728. ASSIGNMENT OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL PERSONNEL OF THE 
                   MILITARY DEPARTMENTS TO MILITARY MEDICAL 
                   TREATMENT FACILITIES.

       (a) In General.--The Secretaries of the military 
     departments shall ensure that the Surgeons General of the 
     Armed Forces carry out fully the requirements of section 
     712(b)(3) of the John S. McCain National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (Public Law 115-232; 
     10 U.S.C. 1073c note) by not later than September 30, 2022.
       (b) Assignments to Military Medical Treatment Facilities.--
     For purposes of carrying out fully the requirements of 
     section 712(b)(3) of the John S. McCain National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019, as required by 
     subsection (a), assignment of uniformed medical and dental 
     personnel to a military medical treatment facility pursuant 
     to such section may be accomplished by the assignment of such 
     personnel to an organizational unit of the military 
     department concerned under a service manpower document with 
     allocation against a manpower requirement on a Defense Health 
     Agency manpower document of a military medical treatment 
     facility with duty at the military medical treatment 
     facility.
       (c) Additional Requirement for Walter Reed National 
     Military Medical Center.--
       (1) Assignment of military personnel.--For fiscal years 
     2023 through 2027, except as provided in paragraph (2), the 
     Secretary of Defense shall ensure that the Secretaries of the 
     military departments assign to the Walter Reed National 
     Military Medical Center sufficient military personnel to meet 
     not less than 85 percent of the joint table of distribution 
     in effect for such facility on December 23, 2016.
       (2) Exception.--Paragraph (1) shall not apply to any fiscal 
     year for which the Secretary of Defense certifies at the 
     beginning of such fiscal year to the Committees on Armed 
     Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives that 
     notwithstanding the failure to meet the requirement under 
     such paragraph, the Walter Reed National Military Medical 
     Center is fully capable of carrying out all significant 
     activities as the premier medical center of the military 
     health system.
       (d) Reports.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than September 30, 2022, each 
     Secretary of a military department shall submit to the 
     Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of 
     Representatives a report on the compliance of the military 
     department concerned with this section.
       (2) Elements.--
       (A) In general.--Each report required by paragraph (1) 
     shall include--
       (i) an accounting of the number of uniformed personnel and 
     civilian personnel assigned to a military medical treatment 
     facility as of October 1, 2019; and
       (ii) a comparable accounting as of September 30, 2022.
       (B) Explanation.--If the number specified in clause (ii) of 
     subparagraph (A) is less than the number specified in clause 
     (i) of such subparagraph, the Secretary concerned shall 
     provide a full explanation for the reduction.
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