[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 123 (Tuesday, July 18, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S3028]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 867. Mr. CARDIN (for himself and Mrs. Shaheen) 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 appropriate place in title XI, insert the following:

     SEC. __. RECEIPT OF GRANT FUNDS BY UNITED STATES NAVAL 
                   ACADEMY EMPLOYEES.

       Section 8452 of title 10, United States Code, is amended--
       (1) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e); and
       (2) by inserting after subsection (c) the following new 
     subsection (d):
       ``(d) Notwithstanding section 5533 of title 5, employees of 
     the Naval Academy who are on leave without pay, due to the 
     regular 10-month pay schedule and not due to discipline or 
     other reasons, are eligible to receive funds, including for 
     salary and fringe benefit payments, from grant funds provided 
     by Federal agencies other than the Naval Academy, including 
     the National Institutes of Health, the National Science 
     Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the Department of 
     Energy, and the National Aeronautics and Space 
     Administration.''.
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