S.Amdt. 3990

SA 3990. Mr. BOOKER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 3896 proposed by Ms. Collins (for herself, Mr. Kirk, Mr.
Reed, and Mr. Tester) to the bill H.R. 2577, making appropriations for
the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development,
and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, and
for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of title II of division B, add the following:

prohibition on recovery of overpayment of compensation paid to
incarcerated individuals except in the case of fraud,
misrepresentation, or bad faith

Sec. 251. Section 5313 of title 38, United States Code, is
amended--
(1) by redesignating subsection (e) as subsection (f); and
(2) by inserting after subsection (d) the following new
subsection (e):
``(e) The Secretary may not recover from a person the
amount of any compensation that should have been reduced
under this section after the date that is 180 days after the
date on which such amount should have been reduced under this
section unless the Secretary determines that the person
committed fraud, misrepresentation, or bad faith that
resulted in such amount not being reduced.''.
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