[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S5023]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2738. Mr. CRUZ 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 appropriate place in title V, insert the following:

     SEC. __. SERVICE ACADEMIES: REFERRAL OF DENIED APPLICANTS TO 
                   THE SENIOR MILITARY COLLEGES.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act the Secretary of Defense shall 
     establish a system whereby a covered individual may elect to 
     have the Secretary share information regarding such covered 
     individual with a senior military college.
       (b) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Covered individual.--The term ``covered individual'' 
     means an individual whose application for an appointment as a 
     cadet or midshipman at a Service Academy is denied.
       (2) Senior military college.--The term ``senior military 
     college'' means a school specified in section 2111a of title 
     10, United States Code.
       (3) Service academy.--The term ``Service Academy'' has the 
     meaning given such term in section 347 of title 10, United 
     States Code.
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