S.Amdt. 1975

SA 1975. Mr. FLAKE 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 B of title XV, add the following:

SEC. 1523. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN UNOBLIGATED FUNDS AVAILABLE
TO CONSTRUCT, RENOVATE, REPAIR, OR EXPAND
ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ON
MILITARY INSTALLATIONS TO ADDRESS CAPACITY OR
FACILITY CONDITION DEFICIENCIES.

(a) Cessation of Availability.--Any amount of the
$464,017,143 of unobligated funds in the Operation and
Maintenance, Defense-wide, account and available for the
Office of Economic Adjustment, or for transfer to the
Secretary of Education, to construct, renovate, repair, or
expand elementary and secondary public schools on military
installations in order to address capacity or facility
condition deficiencies at such schools as of the date of the
enactment of this Act that remain unobligated as of September
30, 2016, shall no longer be available for obligation for
that purpose as of October 1, 2016.
(b) Authority To Reprogram for OCO Purposes.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary of Defense may reprogram
amounts no longer available for obligation for the purpose
described in subsection (a) as of October 1, 2016, by reason
of subsection (a) for such programs, projects, and activities
in connection with overseas contingency operations as the
Secretary considers appropriate.
(2) Construction.--The authority to reprogram funds under
paragraph (1) is in addition to any other authority available
to the Secretary to transfer or reprogram funds in this Act
or otherwise provided by law.
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