[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 120 (Thursday, July 13, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S2637]
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  SA 494. Mr. SCOTT of Florida submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for 
fiscal year 2024 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 X, add the following:

     SEC. 1025. SUITABLE REPLACEMENT SHIPS FOR NAVY SURFACE 
                   COMBATANT SHIPS.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of the Navy may not retire, 
     prepare to retire, place in storage or on backup inventory 
     status, or sell any surface combatant ship until a suitable 
     replacement ship is delivered to the Navy.
       (b) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Suitable replacement ship.--The term ``suitable 
     replacement ship'' means a ship that can accomplish the same 
     primary mission of the ship to be retired, prepared to 
     retired, placed in storage or on backup inventory status, or 
     sold.
       (2) Surface combatant ship.--The term ``surface combatant 
     ship'' means a ship of any of the following classes:
       (A) CVN.
       (B) DDG.
       (C) CG.
       (D) LHA/LHD.
       (E) LPD.
       (F) LSD.
       (G) LCS.
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