S.Amdt. 1654

SA 1654. Mr. CORNYN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 1390, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2010 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. __. POSTHUMOUS BENEFITS FOR SURVIVING SPOUSE.

(a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the “Military Widow and Surviving Spouse Protection Act”.

(b) Amendment.--Section 1703(a)(1) of title XVII of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004 ( Public Law 108-136) is amended by inserting “or the citizen died while serving honorably in an active duty status in the military, air, or naval forces of the United States and such death occurred through no fault of the citizen,” after “aggravated by combat,”.