[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 156 (Tuesday, September 27, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5061]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 5652. Ms. DUCKWORTH 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 X, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. EXPANSION AND CLARIFICATION OF ENTITLEMENT TO POST-
                   9/11 EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOR SERVICE ON 
                   ACTIVE DUTY IN THE UNIFORMED SERVICES.

       (a) Expansion and Clarification.--Section 3301(1) of title 
     38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 
     following new subparagraphs:
       ``(D) In the case of members of the regular components of 
     the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service, the 
     meaning given such term in section 101(21)(B).
       ``(E) In the case of members of the reserve component of 
     the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service, service 
     on active duty under a call or order to active duty under 
     subparagraph (B), (C), or (D) of section 203(c)(2) of the 
     Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 204(c)(2)) or section 
     216 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 217).''.
       (b) Additional Clarification.--Section 3311 of such title 
     is amended--
       (1) in the section heading by striking ``in the Armed 
     Forces'' and inserting ``in the uniformed services'';
       (2) in subsection (b), in paragraphs (1) through (11), by 
     striking ``Armed Forces'' each place it appears and inserting 
     ``uniformed services'';
       (3) in subsection (c), by striking ``Armed Forces'' each 
     place it appears and inserting ``uniformed services'';
       (4) in subsection (d)(3)(A), by striking ``Armed Forces'' 
     and inserting ``uniformed services''; and
       (5) in subsection (f)(4)(B)(ii), by striking ``Armed 
     Forces'' and inserting ``uniformed services''.
       (c) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the 
     beginning of chapter 33 of such title is amended by striking 
     the item relating to section 3311 and inserting the following 
     new item:

``3311. Educational assistance for service in the uniformed services 
              commencing on or after September 11, 2001: 
              entitlement.''.
       (d) Technical Correction.--Section 101 of such title is 
     amended, in paragraphs (21) through (23), by striking 
     ``Reserve Corps of the Public Health Service'' each place it 
     appears and inserting ``Ready Reserve Corps of the Public 
     Health Service''.
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