S.Amdt. 2279

SA 2279. Mr. DURBIN (for himself and Mr. Harkin) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 1197, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2014 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 C of title VII, add the following:

SEC. 722. EXTREMITY TRAUMA AND AMPUTATION RESEARCH.

Section 723 of the Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (Public Law 110-417; 122 Stat. 4508) is amended--

(1) in subsection (c)(2), by adding at the end the following: “Such research may be conducted by awarding competitive grants for peer-reviewed research on patient outcomes, materials, and technology to advance orthotic and prosthetic clinical care for members of the Armed Forces and veterans who have undergone amputation, traumatic brain injury, and other serious physical injury as a result of combat or military experience.”; and

(2) in subsection (d)(2), by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:

“(C) Identification and prioritization of the most significant gaps in orthotic and prosthetic research pertinent to the provision of evidence-based clinical care to members of the Armed Forces and veterans, and a summary of how any grants awarded under subsection (c)(2) will address such gaps.”.