[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 156 (Tuesday, September 27, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5084]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 5719. Mr. COTTON 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. ___. INCREASE IN SPECIAL PENSION FOR MEDAL OF HONOR 
                   RECIPIENTS.

       (a) In General.--Section 1562(a)(1) of title 38, United 
     States Code, is amended by striking ``$1,388.68'' and 
     inserting ``$3,500''.
       (b) Effective Date.--
       (1) In general.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
     take effect on the date that is--
       (A) except as provided in subparagraph (B), 180 days after 
     the date of the enactment of this Act; and
       (B) in the case that the date that is 180 days after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act is not the first day of a 
     month, the first day of the first month beginning after the 
     date that is 180 days after the date of the enactment of this 
     Act.
       (2) Delay of annual cost-of-living adjustment.--
       (A) In general.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall 
     not make an increase pursuant to section 1562(e) of such 
     title effective December 1, 2022, if the amendment made by 
     subsection (a) takes effect before such date.
       (B) Resumption.--In the case that the Secretary, pursuant 
     to subparagraph (A), does not make an increase pursuant to 
     section 1562(e) of such title effective December 1, 2022, the 
     Secretary shall resume making increases pursuant to such 
     section with the first such increase effective December 1, 
     2023.
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