[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 157 (Wednesday, September 28, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5386]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 5905. Mr. BOOKER 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 end of subtitle A of title VI, add the following:

     SEC. 606. REIMBURSEMENT FOR TRANSPORTATION OF PETS FOR 
                   MEMBERS MAKING A PERMANENT CHANGE OF STATION.

       Section 453 of title 37, United States Code, is amended by 
     adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(h) Reimbursement for Transportation of Pets for Members 
     Making a Permanent Change of Station.--
       ``(1) Pet quarantine fees.--The Secretary concerned may 
     reimburse a member of a uniformed service who is ordered to 
     make a permanent change of station for mandatory pet 
     quarantine fees for household pets, but not to exceed $550 
     per change of station, when the member incurs the fees 
     incident to such change of station.
       ``(2) Transportation to or from duty station abroad.--The 
     Secretary concerned may reimburse a member of a uniformed 
     service who is ordered to make a permanent change of station 
     between a duty station in the United States and a duty 
     station in a foreign country for transportation of household 
     pets in an amount not to exceed $4,000 per change of 
     station.''.
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