S.Amdt. 1330

SA 1330. Mr. DeWINE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 1042, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2006 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 184, between lines 18 and 19, insert the following:

SEC. 718. CENTENNIAL DEMONSTRATION PROJECT.

(a) Authorization.--Not later than December 31, 2005, the Secretary of the Air Force shall implement a demonstration project (in this section referred to as the “Centennial Demonstration Project”) with a non-profit health care entity to jointly staff and provide heath care services to military personnel and civilians at a Department of Defense military treatment facility.

(b) Participants.--The Centennial Demonstration project shall be conducted at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base by the signatories to the “Centennial” Memorandum Agreement entered into by the Department of the Air Force, Materiel Command on December 17, 2003.

(c) Reports.--Not later than September 30, 2007, and September 30, 2010, the parties to the agreement described in subsection (b) shall jointly submit a report to Congress on the Centennial Demonstration Project and its impact on the utilization of the military treatment facility at which health care services are provided under subsection (a).

(d) Effective Date.--This section shall be effective during the 5-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act.