S.Amdt. 2098

SA 2098. Mr. BROWN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 1585, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2008 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 D of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1044. REPORT ON COST OF TRANSITIONING TROOPS INTO MILITARY AND CIVILIAN LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES AFTER THE COMPLETION OF OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM.

(a) Report Required.--The Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committee a report setting forth the current estimate of the costs of transitioning members of the Armed Forces into military and civilian life in the United States after the completion of Operation Iraqi Freedom, including the costs of any logistics associated with the return of such members and their equipment to the United States and the costs of any transition assistance and other support programs anticipated to be required to assist such members in returning and adjusting to military or civilian life, as applicable, in the United States.

(b) Submittal Date.--The report required by subsection (a) shall be submitted not later than the date of the submittal to Congress of the budget of the President for fiscal year 2009 as submitted under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code.