S.Amdt. 4256

SA 4256. Mr. REID (for Mr. Blumenthal) submitted an amendment
intended to be proposed by Mr. Reid to the bill S. 2943, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2017 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 I of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1097. PARTICIPATION OF VETERANS IN TRANSITION ASSISTANCE
PROGRAM OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the
Secretary of Defense shall enter into a memorandum of
understanding under which a veteran, during the one-year
period beginning on the date on which the veteran is
discharged or separates from service in the Armed Forces, may
participate in the Transition Assistance Program (TAP) of the
Department of Defense.
(b) Counseling at Military Installations.--As part of their
participation in the Transition Assistance Program under
subsection (a), veterans may receive transition assistance
counseling under the program at any military installation at
which transition assistance counseling is being provided to
members of the Armed Forces under the program.
(c) Veteran Defined.--In this section, the term ``veteran''
has the meaning given that term in section 101 of title 38,
United States Code.
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