[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 157 (Wednesday, September 28, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5494]
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  SA 6015. Mr. LEE 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 C of title VI, add the following:

     SEC. 624. CERTAIN ABSENCES WITHOUT LEAVE THAT RESULT FROM 
                   CONVICTIONS IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES TO BE 
                   CONSIDERED UNAVOIDABLE FOR PURPOSES OF PAY AND 
                   ALLOWANCES.

       Section 503 of title 37, United States Code, is amended by 
     adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(c) Certain Absences Resulting From Convictions in 
     Foreign Countries.--For purposes of subsection (a), the 
     absence without leave or over leave of a member of the Army, 
     Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, Coast Guard, or 
     National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration shall be excused 
     as unavoidable if--
       ``(1) the member is absent without leave or over leave 
     because the member is in confinement by civil authorities, or 
     by military authorities for civil authorities, in a foreign 
     country and is tried and convicted in that country; and
       ``(2) the Secretary concerned determines that the United 
     States has a strong interest in ameliorating the negative 
     effect of that conviction on the spouse or children of the 
     member.''.
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