[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 119 (Tuesday, July 23, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5244-S5245]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2974. Ms. ERNST (for herself, Mr. Blumenthal, Mrs. Gillibrand, and 
Mr. Cotton) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to 
the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for

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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, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. AUTHORITY OF ARMY COUNTERINTELLIGENCE AGENTS.

       (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 Army 
     Counterintelligence Command'' before the colon; and
       (2) in subsection (b)--
       (A) by striking ``who is a special agent'' and inserting 
     the following: ``who is--
       ``(1) a special agent'';
       (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) a special agent of the Army Counterintelligence 
     Command (or a successor to that command) whose duties include 
     conducting, supervising, or coordinating counterintelligence 
     investigations in programs and operations of the Department 
     of the Army.''.
       (b) Annual Report and Briefing.--Not later than one year 
     after the date of the enactment of this Act and not less 
     frequently than once each year thereafter until the date that 
     is four years after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
     the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional 
     defense committees, the Committee on the Judiciary of the 
     Senate, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of 
     Representatives an annual report and provide to such 
     committees an annual briefing on the administration of 
     section 7377 of title 10, United States Code, as amended by 
     subsection (a).
       (c) 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 Army Counterintelligence Command: authority to 
              execute warrants and make arrests.''.
       (d) Sunset and Snapback.--On the date that is four years 
     after the date of the enactment of this Act--
       (1) subsection (b) of section 7377 of title 10, United 
     States Code, is amended to read as it read on the day before 
     the date of the enactment of this Act;
       (2) the section heading for such section is amended to read 
     as it read on the day before the date of the enactment of 
     this Act; and
       (3) the item for such section in the table of sections at 
     the beginning of chapter 747 of such title is amended to read 
     as it read on the day before the date of the enactment of 
     this Act.
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