To improve the provisions relating to adoption of retired military working dogs.

SA 1701. Mr. WYDEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities
of the Department of Defense and for military construction, to
prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 117, insert between lines 12 and 13, the following
(b) Location of Retirement.--Subsection (f) of such section
is further amended--
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as
subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively;
(2) by inserting ``(1)'' before ``If the Secretary'';
(3) in paragraph (1), as designated by paragraph (2) of
this subsection--
(A) by striking ``, and no suitable adoption is available
at the military facility where the dog is location,''; and
(B) in subparagraph (B), as designated by paragraph (1) of
this subsection, by inserting ``within the United States''
after ``to another location''; and
(4) by adding at the end the following new paragraph (2):
``(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply if a United States
citizen living abroad adopts the dog at the time of
retirement.''.
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