[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 119 (Tuesday, July 23, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S5257]
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  SA 2999. 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 subtitle B of title VI, add the following:

     SEC. 615. TERMINATION OF OBLIGATION TO REPAY BONUSES OF 
                   MEMBERS SEPARATED SOLELY FOR REFUSING COVID-19 
                   VACCINE.

       (a) Release From Repayment Obligation.--A former member of 
     the Armed Forces who was separated from the Armed Forces 
     based solely on the failure of the member to obey an order to 
     receive a vaccine for COVID-19 shall be released from any 
     obligation to repay any bonus received by the former member 
     from the Department of Defense.
       (b) Reimbursement of Repayments.--A former member of the 
     Armed Forces described in subsection (a) who, before the date 
     of the enactment of this Act, repaid any portion of a bonus 
     described in that subsection shall be reimbursed by the 
     Secretary of Defense for such repayment.
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