[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S4839]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2511. Mr. MORAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2025 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 E of title VII, add the following:

     SEC. 750. GRANT PROGRAM FOR INCREASED COOPERATION ON POST-
                   TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER RESEARCH BETWEEN 
                   UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL.

       (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that 
     the Secretary of Defense, acting through the Psychological 
     Health and Traumatic Brain Injury Research Program, should 
     seek to explore scientific collaboration between academic 
     institutions and nonprofit research entities in the United 
     States and institutions in Israel with expertise in 
     researching, diagnosing, and treating post-traumatic stress 
     disorder.
       (b) Grant Program.--
       (1) In general.--The Secretary of Defense, in coordination 
     with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the Secretary of 
     State, shall award grants to eligible entities to carry out 
     collaborative research between the United States and Israel 
     with respect to post-traumatic stress disorders.
       (2) Agreement.--The Secretary of Defense shall carry out 
     the grant program under this section in accordance with the 
     Agreement on the United States-Israel binational science 
     foundation with exchange of letters, signed at New York 
     September 27, 1972, and entered into force on September 27, 
     1972.
       (c) Eligible Entities.--To be eligible to receive a grant 
     under this section, an entity shall be an academic 
     institution or a nonprofit entity located in the United 
     States.
       (d) Award.--The Secretary shall award grants under this 
     section to eligible entities that--
       (1) carry out a research project that--
       (A) addresses a requirement in the area of post-traumatic 
     stress disorders that the Secretary determines appropriate to 
     research using such grant; and
       (B) is conducted by the eligible entity and an entity in 
     Israel under a joint research agreement; and
       (2) meet such other criteria that the Secretary may 
     establish.
       (e) Application.--To be eligible to receive a grant under 
     this section, an eligible entity shall submit an application 
     to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and containing 
     such commitments and information as the Secretary may 
     require.
       (f) Gift Authority.--
       (1) In general.--The Secretary may accept, hold, and 
     administer any gift of money made on the condition that the 
     gift be used for the purpose of the grant program under this 
     section.
       (2) Deposit.--Gifts of money accepted under paragraph (1) 
     shall be deposited in the Treasury in the Department of 
     Defense General Gift Fund and shall be available, subject to 
     appropriation, without fiscal year limitation.
       (g) Reports.--Not later than 180 days after the date on 
     which an eligible entity completes a research project using a 
     grant under this section, the Secretary shall submit to 
     Congress a report that contains--
       (1) a description of how the eligible entity used the 
     grant; and
       (2) an evaluation of the level of success of the research 
     project.
       (h) Termination.--The authority to award grants under this 
     section shall terminate on the date that is seven years after 
     the date on which the first such grant is awarded.
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