[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Pages 12204-12207]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           TEXT OF AMENDMENTS

  SA 3558. Mr. VITTER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 2578, to ensure that employers cannot interfere in 
their employees' birth control and other health care decisions; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR CERTAIN CONGRESSIONAL 
                   STAFF AND MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH.

       Section 1312(d)(3)(D) of the Patient Protection and 
     Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. 18032(d)(3)(D)) is amended--
       (1) by striking the subparagraph heading and inserting the 
     following:
       ``(D) Members of congress, congressional staff, and 
     political appointees in the exchange.--'';
       (2) in clause (i), in the matter preceding subclause (I)--
       (A) by striking ``and congressional staff with'' and 
     inserting ``, congressional staff, the President, the Vice 
     President, and political appointees with''; and
       (B) by striking ``or congressional staff shall'' and 
     inserting ``, congressional staff, the President, the Vice 
     President, or a political appointee shall'';
       (3) in clause (ii)--
       (A) in subclause (II), by inserting after ``Congress,'' the 
     following: ``of a committee of Congress, or of a leadership 
     office of Congress,''; and
       (B) by adding at the end the following:

       ``(III) Political appointee.--In this subparagraph, the 
     term `political appointee' means any individual who--

       ``(aa) is employed in a position described under sections 
     5312 through 5316 of title 5, United States Code, (relating 
     to the Executive Schedule);
       ``(bb) is a limited term appointee, limited emergency 
     appointee, or noncareer appointee in the Senior Executive 
     Service, as defined under paragraphs (5), (6), and (7), 
     respectively, of section 3132(a) of title 5, United States 
     Code;
       ``(cc) is employed in a position in the executive branch of 
     the Government of a confidential or policy-determining 
     character

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     under schedule C of subpart C of part 213 of title 5 of the 
     Code of Federal Regulations; or
       ``(dd) is employed in or under the Executive Office of the 
     President in a position that is excluded from the competitive 
     service by reason of its confidential, policy-determining, 
     policy-making, or policy-advocating character.''; and
       (4) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(iii) Government contribution.--No Government 
     contribution under section 8906 of title 5, United States 
     Code, shall be provided on behalf of an individual who is a 
     Member of Congress, a congressional staff member, the 
     President, the Vice President, or a political appointees for 
     coverage under this paragraph.
       ``(iv) Limitation on amount of tax credit or cost-
     sharing.--An individual enrolling in health insurance 
     coverage pursuant to this paragraph shall not be eligible to 
     receive a tax credit under section 36B of the Internal 
     Revenue Code of 1986 or reduced cost sharing under section 
     1402 of this Act in an amount that exceeds the total amount 
     for which a similarly situated individual (who is not so 
     enrolled) would be entitled to receive under such sections.
       ``(v) Limitation on discretion for designation of staff.--
     Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a Member of 
     Congress shall not have discretion in determinations with 
     respect to which employees employed by the office of such 
     Member are eligible to enroll for coverage through an 
     Exchange.''.
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  SA 3559. Mr. VITTER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 2578, to ensure that employers cannot interfere in 
their employees' birth control and other health care decisions; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

                   TITLE__--PRENATAL NONDISCIMINATION

     SEC. _01. SHORT TITLE.

       This title may be cited as the ``Prenatal Nondiscrimination 
     Act (PRENDA) of 2014''.

     SEC. _02. FINDINGS AND CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY.

       (a) Findings.--The Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) Women are a vital part of American society and culture 
     and possess the same fundamental human rights and civil 
     rights as men.
       (2) United States law prohibits the dissimilar treatment of 
     males and females who are similarly situated and prohibits 
     sex discrimination in various contexts, including the 
     provision of employment, education, housing, health insurance 
     coverage, and athletics.
       (3) Sex is an immutable characteristic ascertainable at the 
     earliest stages of human development through existing medical 
     technology and procedures commonly in use, including 
     maternal-fetal bloodstream DNA sampling, amniocentesis, 
     chorionic villus sampling or ``CVS'', and obstetric 
     ultrasound. In addition to medically assisted sex 
     determination, a growing sex determination niche industry has 
     developed and is marketing low-cost commercial products, 
     widely advertised and available, that aid in the sex 
     determination of an unborn child without the aid of medical 
     professionals. Experts have demonstrated that the sex-
     selection industry is on the rise and predict that it will 
     continue to be a growing trend in the United States. Sex 
     determination is always a necessary step to the procurement 
     of a sex-selection abortion.
       (4) A ``sex-selection abortion'' is an abortion undertaken 
     for purposes of eliminating an unborn child based on the sex 
     or gender of the child. Sex-selection abortion is barbaric, 
     and described by scholars and civil rights advocates as an 
     act of sex-based or gender-based violence, predicated on sex 
     discrimination. Sex-selection abortions are typically late-
     term abortions performed in the 2nd or 3rd trimester of 
     pregnancy, after the unborn child has developed sufficiently 
     to feel pain. Substantial medical evidence proves that an 
     unborn child can experience pain at 20 weeks after 
     conception, and perhaps substantially earlier. By definition, 
     sex-selection abortions do not implicate the health of the 
     mother of the unborn, but instead are elective procedures 
     motivated by sex or gender bias.
       (5) The targeted victims of sex-selection abortions 
     performed in the United States and worldwide are 
     overwhelmingly female. The selective abortion of females is 
     female infanticide, the intentional killing of unborn 
     females, due to the preference for male offspring or ``son 
     preference''. Son preference is reinforced by the low value 
     associated, by some segments of the world community, with 
     female offspring. Those segments tend to regard female 
     offspring as financial burdens to a family over their 
     lifetime due to their perceived inability to earn or provide 
     financially for the family unit as can a male. In addition, 
     due to social and legal convention, female offspring are less 
     likely to carry on the family name. ``Son preference'' is one 
     of the most evident manifestations of sex or gender 
     discrimination in any society, undermining female equality, 
     and fueling the elimination of females' right to exist in 
     instances of sex-selection abortion.
       (6) Sex-selection abortions are not expressly prohibited by 
     United States law or the laws of 47 States. Sex-selection 
     abortions are performed in the United States. In a March 2008 
     report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy 
     of Sciences, Columbia University economists Douglas Almond 
     and Lena Edlund examined the sex ratio of United States-born 
     children and found ``evidence of sex selection, most likely 
     at the prenatal stage''. The data revealed obvious ``son 
     preference'' in the form of unnatural sex-ratio imbalances 
     within certain segments of the United States population, 
     primarily those segments tracing their ethnic or cultural 
     origins to countries where sex-selection abortion is 
     prevalent. The evidence strongly suggests that some Americans 
     are exercising sex-selection abortion practices within the 
     United States consistent with discriminatory practices common 
     to their country of origin, or the country to which they 
     trace their ancestry. While sex-selection abortions are more 
     common outside the United States, the evidence reveals that 
     female feticide is also occurring in the United States.
       (7) The American public supports a prohibition of sex-
     selection abortion. In a March 2006 Zogby International poll, 
     86 percent of Americans agreed that sex-selection abortion 
     should be illegal, yet only 3 States proscribe sex-selection 
     abortion.
       (8) Despite the failure of the United States to proscribe 
     sex-selection abortion, the United States Congress has 
     expressed repeatedly, through Congressional resolution, 
     strong condemnation of policies promoting sex-selection 
     abortion in the ``Communist Government of China''. Likewise, 
     at the 2007 United Nation's Annual Meeting of the Commission 
     on the Status of Women, 51st Session, the United States 
     delegation spearheaded a resolution calling on countries to 
     condemn sex-selective abortion, a policy directly 
     contradictory to the permissiveness of current United States 
     law, which places no restriction on the practice of sex-
     selection abortion. The United Nations Commission on the 
     Status of Women has urged governments of all nations ``to 
     take necessary measures to prevent . . . prenatal sex 
     selection''.
       (9) A 1990 report by Harvard University economist Amartya 
     Sen, estimated that more than 100 million women were 
     ``demographically missing'' from the world as early as 1990 
     due to sexist practices, including sex-selection abortion. 
     Many experts believe sex-selection abortion is the primary 
     cause. Current estimates of women missing from the world 
     range in the hundreds of millions.
       (10) Countries with longstanding experience with sex-
     selection abortion--such as the Republic of India, the United 
     Kingdom, and the People's Republic of China--have enacted 
     restrictions on sex-selection, and have steadily continued to 
     strengthen prohibitions and penalties. The United States, by 
     contrast, has no law in place to restrict sex-selection 
     abortion, establishing the United States as affording less 
     protection from sex- based feticide than the Republic of 
     India or the People's Republic of China, whose recent 
     practices of sex-selection abortion were vehemently and 
     repeatedly condemned by United States congressional 
     resolutions and by the United States Ambassador to the 
     Commission on the Status of Women. Public statements from 
     within the medical community reveal that citizens of other 
     countries come to the United States for sex-selection 
     procedures that would be criminal in their country of origin. 
     Because the United States permits abortion on the basis of 
     sex, the United States may effectively function as a ``safe 
     haven'' for those who seek to have American physicians do 
     what would otherwise be criminal in their home countries--a 
     sex-selection abortion, most likely late-term.
       (11) The American medical community opposes sex-selection. 
     The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 
     commonly known as ``ACOG'', stated in its 2007 Ethics 
     Committee Opinion, Number 360, that sex-selection is 
     inappropriate because it ``ultimately supports sexist 
     practices''. The American Society of Reproductive Medicine 
     (commonly known as ``ASRM'') 2004 Ethics Committee Opinion on 
     sex-selection notes that central to the controversy of sex-
     selection is the potential for ``inherent gender 
     discrimination'', . . . the ``risk of psychological harm to 
     sex-selected offspring (i.e., by placing on them expectations 
     that are too high)'', . . . and ``reinforcement of gender 
     bias in society as a whole''. Embryo sex-selection, ASRM 
     notes, remains ``vulnerable to the judgment that no matter 
     what its basis, [the method] identifies gender as a reason to 
     value one person over another, and it supports socially 
     constructed stereotypes of what gender means''. In doing so, 
     it not only ``reinforces possibilities of unfair 
     discrimination, but may trivialize human reproduction by 
     making it depend on the selection of nonessential features of 
     offspring''. The ASRM ethics opinion continues, ``ongoing 
     problems with the status of women in the United States make 
     it necessary to take account of concerns for the impact of 
     sex-selection on goals of gender equality''. The American 
     Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, an 
     organization with hundreds of members--many of whom are 
     former abortionists--makes the following declaration:

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     ``Sex selection abortions are more graphic examples of the 
     damage that abortion inflicts on women. In addition to 
     increasing premature labor in subsequent pregnancies, 
     increasing suicide and major depression, and increasing the 
     risk of breast cancer in teens who abort their first 
     pregnancy and delay childbearing, sex selection abortions are 
     often targeted at fetuses simply because the fetus is female. 
     As physicians who care for both the mother and her unborn 
     child, the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and 
     Gynecologists vigorously opposes aborting fetuses because of 
     their gender.''. The President's Council on Bioethics 
     published a Working Paper stating the council's belief that 
     society's respect for reproductive freedom does not prohibit 
     the regulation or prohibition of ``sex control'', defined as 
     the use of various medical technologies to choose the sex of 
     one's child. The publication expresses concern that ``sex 
     control might lead to . . . dehumanization and a new 
     eugenics''.
       (12) Sex-selection abortion results in an unnatural sex-
     ratio imbalance. An unnatural sex-ratio imbalance is 
     undesirable, due to the inability of the numerically 
     predominant sex to find mates. Experts worldwide document 
     that a significant sex-ratio imbalance in which males 
     numerically predominate can be a cause of increased violence 
     and militancy within a society. Likewise, an unnatural sex-
     ratio imbalance gives rise to the commoditization of humans 
     in the form of human trafficking, and a consequent increase 
     in kidnapping and other violent crime.
       (13) Sex-selection abortions have the effect of diminishing 
     the representation of women in the American population, and 
     therefore, the American electorate.
       (14) Sex-selection abortion reinforces sex discrimination 
     and has no place in a civilized society.
       (15) The history of the United States includes examples of 
     sex discrimination. The people of the United States 
     ultimately responded in the strongest possible legal terms by 
     enacting a constitutional amendment correcting elements of 
     such discrimination. Women, once subjected to sex 
     discrimination that denied them the right to vote, now have 
     suffrage guaranteed by the 19th amendment. The elimination of 
     discriminatory practices has been and is among the highest 
     priorities and greatest achievements of American history.
       (16) Implicitly approving the discriminatory practice of 
     sex-selection abortion by choosing not to prohibit them will 
     reinforce these inherently discriminatory practices, and 
     evidence a failure to protect a segment of certain unborn 
     Americans because those unborn are of a sex that is 
     disfavored. Sex-selection abortions trivialize the value of 
     the unborn on the basis of sex, reinforcing sex 
     discrimination, and coarsening society to the humanity of all 
     vulnerable and innocent human life, making it increasingly 
     difficult to protect such life. Thus, Congress has a 
     compelling interest in acting--indeed it must act--to 
     prohibit sex-selection abortion.
       (b) Constitutional Authority.--In accordance with the above 
     findings, Congress enacts the following pursuant to Congress' 
     power under--
       (1) the Commerce Clause;
       (2) section 5 of the 14th amendment, including the power to 
     enforce the prohibition on Government action denying equal 
     protection of the laws; and
       (3) section 8 of article I to make all laws necessary and 
     proper for the carrying into execution of powers vested by 
     the Constitution in the Government of the United States.

     SEC. _03. DISCRIMINATION AGAINST THE UNBORN ON THE BASIS OF 
                   SEX.

       (a) In General.--Chapter 13 of title 18, United States 
     Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:

     ``Sec. 250. Discrimination against the unborn on the basis of 
       sex

       ``(a) In General.--Whoever knowingly--
       ``(1) performs an abortion knowing that such abortion is 
     sought based on the sex or gender of the child;
       ``(2) uses force or the threat of force to intentionally 
     injure or intimidate any person for the purpose of coercing a 
     sex-selection abortion;
       ``(3) solicits or accepts funds for the performance of a 
     sex-selection abortion; or
       ``(4) transports a woman into the United States or across a 
     State line for the purpose of obtaining a sex-selection 
     abortion;

     or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title or 
     imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.
       ``(b) Civil Remedies.--
       ``(1) Civil action by woman on whom abortion is 
     performed.--A woman upon whom an abortion has been performed 
     pursuant to a violation of subsection (a)(2) may in a civil 
     action against any person who engaged in a violation of 
     subsection (a) obtain appropriate relief.
       ``(2) Civil action by relatives.--The father of an unborn 
     child who is the subject of an abortion performed or 
     attempted in violation of subsection (a), or a maternal 
     grandparent of the unborn child if the pregnant woman is an 
     unemancipated minor, may in a civil action against any person 
     who engaged in the violation, obtain appropriate relief, 
     unless the pregnancy resulted from the plaintiff's criminal 
     conduct or the plaintiff consented to the abortion.
       ``(3) Appropriate relief.--Appropriate relief in a civil 
     action under this subsection includes--
       ``(A) objectively verifiable money damages for all 
     injuries, psychological and physical, including loss of 
     companionship and support, occasioned by the violation of 
     this section; and
       ``(B) punitive damages.
       ``(4) Injunctive relief.--
       ``(A) In general.--A qualified plaintiff may in a civil 
     action obtain injunctive relief to prevent an abortion 
     provider from performing or attempting further abortions in 
     violation of this section.
       ``(B) Definition.--In this paragraph the term `qualified 
     plaintiff' means--
       ``(i) a woman upon whom an abortion is performed or 
     attempted in violation of this section;
       ``(ii) any person who is the spouse or parent of a woman 
     upon whom an abortion is performed in violation of this 
     section; or
       ``(iii) the Attorney General.
       ``(5) Attorneys fees for plaintiff.--The court shall award 
     a reasonable attorney's fee as part of the costs to a 
     prevailing plaintiff in a civil action under this subsection.
       ``(c) Loss of Federal Funding.--A violation of subsection 
     (a) shall be deemed for the purposes of title VI of the Civil 
     Rights Act of 1964 to be discrimination prohibited by section 
     601 of that Act.
       ``(d) Reporting Requirement.--A physician, physician's 
     assistant, nurse, counselor, or other medical or mental 
     health professional shall report known or suspected 
     violations of any of this section to appropriate law 
     enforcement authorities. Whoever violates this requirement 
     shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 1 
     year, or both.
       ``(e) Expedited Consideration.--It shall be the duty of the 
     United States district courts, United States courts of 
     appeal, and the Supreme Court of the United States to advance 
     on the docket and to expedite to the greatest possible extent 
     the disposition of any matter brought under this section.
       ``(f) Exception.--A woman upon whom a sex-selection 
     abortion is performed may not be prosecuted or held civilly 
     liable for any violation of this section, or for a conspiracy 
     to violate this section.
       ``(g) Protection of Privacy in Court Proceedings.--
       ``(1) In general.--Except to the extent the Constitution or 
     other similarly compelling reason requires, in every civil or 
     criminal action under this section, the court shall make such 
     orders as are necessary to protect the anonymity of any woman 
     upon whom an abortion has been performed or attempted if she 
     does not give her written consent to such disclosure. Such 
     orders may be made upon motion, but shall be made sua sponte 
     if not otherwise sought by a party.
       ``(2) Orders to parties, witnesses, and counsel.--The court 
     shall issue appropriate orders under paragraph (1) to the 
     parties, witnesses, and counsel and shall direct the sealing 
     of the record and exclusion of individuals from courtrooms or 
     hearing rooms to the extent necessary to safeguard her 
     identity from public disclosure. Each such order shall be 
     accompanied by specific written findings explaining why the 
     anonymity of the woman must be preserved from public 
     disclosure, why the order is essential to that end, how the 
     order is narrowly tailored to serve that interest, and why no 
     reasonable less restrictive alternative exists.
       ``(3) Pseudonym required.--In the absence of written 
     consent of the woman upon whom an abortion has been performed 
     or attempted, any party, other than a public official, who 
     brings an action under this section shall do so under a 
     pseudonym.
       ``(4) Limitation.--This subsection shall not be construed 
     to conceal the identity of the plaintiff or of witnesses from 
     the defendant or from attorneys for the defendant.
       ``(h) Definitions.--
       ``(1) The term `abortion' means the act of using or 
     prescribing any instrument, medicine, drug, or any other 
     substance, device, or means with the intent to terminate the 
     clinically diagnosable pregnancy of a woman, with knowledge 
     that the termination by those means will with reasonable 
     likelihood cause the death of the unborn child, unless the 
     act is done with the intent to--
       ``(A) save the life or preserve the health of the unborn 
     child;
       ``(B) remove a dead unborn child caused by spontaneous 
     abortion; or
       ``(C) remove an ectopic pregnancy.
       ``(2) The term `sex-selection abortion' is an abortion 
     undertaken for purposes of eliminating an unborn child based 
     on the sex or gender of the child.''.
       (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the 
     beginning of chapter 13 of title 18, United States Code, is 
     amended by adding after the item relating to section 249 the 
     following new item:

``250. Discrimination against the unborn on the basis of sex.''.

     SEC. _04. SEVERABILITY.

       If any portion of this title or the application thereof to 
     any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity 
     shall not affect the portions or applications of this title

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     which can be given effect without the invalid portion or 
     application.

     SEC. _05. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.

       Nothing in this title shall be construed to require that a 
     healthcare provider has an affirmative duty to inquire as to 
     the motivation for the abortion, absent the healthcare 
     provider having knowledge or information that the abortion is 
     being sought based on the sex or gender of the child.
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  SA 3560. Mrs. SHAHEEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by her to the bill S. 2609, to restore States' sovereign rights to 
enforce State and local sales and use tax laws, and for other purposes; 
which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of section 101, insert the following:
       (d) Limitation.--
       (1) In general.--The authority granted under subsections 
     (a) and (b) shall not apply with respect to any remote seller 
     that is not a qualifying remote seller.
       (2) Qualifying remote seller.--For purposes of this 
     subsection--
       (A) In general.--The term ``qualifying remote seller'' 
     means--
       (i) any remote seller that meets the ownership requirements 
     of subparagraph (B); or
       (ii) any remote seller the majority of domestic employees 
     of which are primarily employed at a location in a 
     participating State.
       (B) Ownership requirements.--A remote seller meets the 
     ownership requirements of this subparagraph if--
       (i) in the case of a remote seller that is a publicly 
     traded corporation, more than 50 percent of the covered 
     employees (as defined in section 162(m)(3)) of the Internal 
     Revenue Code of 1986) of such corporation reside in 
     participating States;
       (ii) in the case of a remote seller that is a corporation 
     (other than a publicly traded corporation), more than 50 
     percent of the stock (by vote or value) of such corporation 
     is held by individuals residing in participating States;
       (iii) in the case of a remote seller that is a partnership, 
     more than 50 percent of the profits interests or capital 
     interests in such partnership is held by individuals residing 
     in participating States; and
       (iv) in the case of any other remote seller, more than 50 
     percent of the beneficial interests in the entity is held by 
     individuals residing in participating States.
       (C) Attribution rules.--For purposes of subparagraph (B), 
     the rules of section 318(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 shall apply.
       (D) Aggregation rules.--For purposes of this paragraph, all 
     persons treated as a single employer under subsection (a) or 
     (b) of section 52 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 or 
     subsection (m) or (o) of section 414 of such Code shall be 
     treated as one person.
       (3) Participating state.--The term ``participating State'' 
     means--
       (A) a Member State under the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax 
     Agreement which has exercised authority under subsection (a); 
     or
       (B) a State that--
       (i) is not a Member State under the Streamlined Sales and 
     Use Tax Agreement; and
       (ii) has met the requirements of paragraphs (1) and (2) of 
     subsection (b) for exercising the authority granted under 
     such subsection.
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  SA 3561. Mrs. SHAHEEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by her to the bill S. 2609, to restore States' sovereign rights to 
enforce State and local sales and use tax laws, and for other purposes; 
which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of section 102, insert the following:
       (i) Transfer of Data.--Nothing in this Act shall be 
     construed as requiring any State to transfer data relating to 
     the audit or collection of sales and use taxes.
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  SA 3562. Mrs. SHAHEEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by her to the bill S. 2609, to restore States' sovereign rights to 
enforce State and local sales and use tax laws, and for other purposes; 
which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of section 101, insert the following:
       (d) Exception for Remote Sellers Incorporated in States 
     That Do Not Have Sales Tax.--A State is not authorized to 
     require a remote seller to collect sales and use taxes under 
     this Act if the remote seller is incorporated in a State that 
     does not collect sales and use taxes with respect to products 
     and services sold in such State.
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  SA 3563. Mr. MENENDEZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill S. 2410, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2015 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 H of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1087. RELEASE OF REPORT ON ENERGY AND COST SAVINGS IN 
                   NONBUILDING APPLICATIONS.

       Not later than 15 days after the date of enactment of this 
     Act, the Secretary of Energy and the Secretary of Defense 
     shall submit to the Committee on Armed Services and the 
     Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate the 
     report on the results of the study of energy and cost savings 
     in nonbuilding applications required under section 518(b) of 
     the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (Public Law 
     110-140; 121 Stat. 1660).

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