[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 152 (Wednesday, September 21, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S4927]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 5537. Mr. LANKFORD submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) 
and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2023 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 appropriate place in title V, insert the following:

     SEC. 5__. LIMITATION ON DISCHARGE FOR MEMBERS OF THE ARMED 
                   FORCES WHO CHOOSE NOT TO RECEIVE A VACCINE FOR 
                   COVID-19.

       The Secretary of Defense may not discharge any member of 
     the Armed Forces under conditions other than honorable solely 
     because such member chooses not to receive a vaccine for 
     COVID-19.
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