S.Amdt. 1135

This amendment's own text couldn't be picked out of its Congressional Record passage, so the passage is shown in full.

SA 1135. Ms. SNOWE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 1867, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2012 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 follow:

       At the end of title XXVII, add the following:

     SEC. 2705. ENHANCED COMMISSARY STORES PILOT PROGRAM.

       (a) Authority To Operate Enhanced Commissary Stores.--
     Subchapter II of chapter 147 of title 10, United States Code,
     is amended by inserting after section 2488 the following new
     section:

     ``Sec. 2488a. Enhanced commissary stores

       ``(a) Authority To Operate.--The Defense Commissary Agency
     may operate an enhanced commissary store at such military
     installations designated for closure or adverse realignment
     under a base closure law as the Defense Commissary Agency
     considers to be appropriate.
       ``(b) Additional Categories of Merchandise.--(1) In
     addition to selling items in the merchandise categories
     specified in subsection (b) of section 2484 of this title in
     the manner provided by such section, an enhanced commissary
     store also may sell items in the following categories as
     commissary merchandise:
       ``(A) Alcoholic beverages.
       ``(B) Tobacco products.
       ``(C) Items in such other merchandise categories (not
     covered by subsection (b) of section 2484 of this title) as
     the Secretary of Defense may authorize.
       ``(2) Subsections (c) and (g) of section 2484 of this title
     shall not apply with regard to the selection, or method of
     sale, of merchandise in the categories specified in
     subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (1) or in any other
     merchandise category authorized under subparagraph (C) of
     such paragraph for sale in, at, or by an enhanced commissary
     store.
       ``(c) Sales Price Establishment and Surcharge.--Subsections
     (d) and (e) of section 2484 of this title shall not apply to
     the pricing of merchandise in the categories specified in
     subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (1) of subsection (b)
     or in any other merchandise category authorized under
     subparagraph (C) of such paragraph for sale in, at, or by an
     enhanced commissary store. Instead, the Secretary of Defense
     shall determine appropriate prices for such merchandise sold
     in, at, or by an enhanced commissary store.
       ``(d) Retention and Use of Portion of Proceeds.--(1) The
     Secretary of Defense may retain amounts equal to the
     difference between--
       ``(A) the retail price of merchandise in the categories
     specified in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (1) of
     subsection (b) and in other merchandise categories authorized
     under subparagraph (C) of such paragraph for sale in, at, or
     by an enhanced commissary store; and
       ``(B) the invoice cost of such merchandise.
       ``(2) The Secretary of Defense shall use amounts retained
     under paragraph (1) for an enhanced commissary store to help
     offset the operating costs of that enhanced commissary
     store.''.
       (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the
     beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting after the
     item relating to section 2488 the following new item:

``2488a. Enhanced commissary stores.''.
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