[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5942]
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SA 6426. Ms. ERNST 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 XI, insert the following:
SEC. ___. AUTHORITY OF ARMY COUNTERINTELLIGENCE AGENTS TO
EXECUTE WARRANTS AND MAKE ARRESTS.
(a) Authority to Execute Warrants and Make Arrests.--
Section 7377 of title 10, United States Code, is amended--
(1) in the section heading, by inserting ``and the Army
Counterintelligence Command'' before the colon; and
(2) in subsection (b)--
(A) by striking ``any employee of the Department of the
Army who is'' and inserting the following: ``any employee of
the Department of the Army--
``(1) who is'';
(B) in paragraph (1) (as so designated) by striking the
period at the end and inserting ``; or''; and
(C) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
``(2) who is a special agent of the Army
Counterintelligence Command (or a successor to that command)
whose duties include conducting, supervising, or coordinating
counterintelligence investigations involving potential or
alleged violations punishable under chapter 37, 113B, or 115
of title 18 and similar offenses punishable under this
title.''.
(b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the
beginning of chapter 747 of such title is amended by striking
the item relating to section 7377 and inserting the following
new item:
``7377. Civilian special agents of the Criminal Investigation Command
and the Army Counterintelligence Command: authority to
execute warrants and make arrests.''.
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