S.Amdt. 1939

SA 1939. Ms. MURKOWSKI 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, 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 VI, add the following:

SEC. 622. TRAVEL ON DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AIRCRAFT ON A
SPACE-AVAILABLE BASIS FOR MEMBERS OF THE
NATIONAL GUARD AND THE RESERVES.

(a) Eligibility.--Subsection (c) of section 2641b of title
10, United States Code, is amended--
(1) by redesignating paragraph (5) as paragraph (6); and
(2) by inserting after paragraph (4) the following new
paragraph (5):
``(5) Members of the reserve components not otherwise
eligible for travel under the program pursuant to this
subsection.''.
(b) Conditions.--Subsection (d) of such section is
amended--
(1) in paragraph (2), by striking ``and'' at the end;
(2) in paragraph (3), by striking the period at the end and
inserting ``; and''; and
(3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
``(4) in the case of members eligible for travel under the
program pursuant to subsection (c)(5)--
``(A) travel under the program shall be available on all
contract flights operated by the Department of Defense for
the transportation of passengers;
``(B) in the case of travel on any military or contract
aircraft traveling from outside the continental United States
(OCONUS) to the continental United States (CONUS),
eligibility shall cease at the first point of entry to the
continental United States; and
``(C) in the case of travel on any military or contract
aircraft traveling from the continental United States to
outside the continental United States, eligibility shall
cease at the first point of entry outside the continental
United States.''.
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