[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 194 (Thursday, November 4, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7923-S7924]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4415. Mr. PETERS (for himself, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Tester, and Mr.

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Padilla) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him 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 title VI, add the following:

     SEC. 6__. REDUCED RETIREMENT ELIGIBILITY AGE FOR CERTAIN 
                   MEMBERS OF READY RESERVE CALLED TO ACTIVE DUTY 
                   FOR CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL, RADIOLOGICAL, AND 
                   NUCLEAR (CBRN) RESPONSE MISSIONS.

       Section 12731(f) of title 10, United States Code, is 
     amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``or (3)'' after 
     ``paragraph (2)'';
       (2) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (4);
       (3) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following new 
     paragraph (3):
       ``(3)(A) In the case of a person who as a member of the 
     Ready Reserve performs active service described in 
     subparagraph (B) after March 1, 2009, the eligibility age for 
     purposes of subsection (a)(1) shall be reduced, subject to 
     subparagraph (D), below 60 years of age by three months for 
     each aggregate of 90 days on which such person performs such 
     active service in any fiscal year after March 1, 2009. A day 
     of duty may be included in only one aggregate of 90 days for 
     purposes of this subparagraph.
       ``(B) Active service described in this subparagraph is 
     service under a call to active duty authorized by the 
     President or the Secretary of Defense under section 502(f) of 
     title 32 with a chemical, biological, radiological, and 
     nuclear (CBRN) response mission in the continental United 
     States, including the Chemical, Biological, Radiological, 
     Nuclear, and High Yield Explosive (CBRNE) Consequence 
     Management Reaction Force (CCMRF)/Command and Control CBRN 
     Response Element-Bravo (C2CRE-B) mission.
       ``(C) If a member described in subparagraph (A) is wounded 
     or otherwise injured or becomes ill while serving on active 
     duty pursuant to a call or order to active duty described in 
     subparagraph (B), and the member is then ordered to active 
     duty under section 12301(h)(1) of this title to receive 
     medical care for the wound, injury, or illness, each day of 
     active duty under that order for medical care shall be 
     treated as a continuation of the original call or order to 
     active duty for purposes of reducing the eligibility age of 
     the member under this paragraph.
       ``(D) The eligibility age for purposes of subsection (a)(1) 
     may not be reduced below 50 years of age for any person under 
     subparagraph (A).''; and
       (4) in paragraph (4), as redesignated by paragraph (2), by 
     inserting ``or (3)'' after ``paragraph (2)''.
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