S.Amdt. 4393

SA 4393. Ms. HIRONO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
her 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:

Strike section 1151 and insert the following:

SEC. 1151. TERMINATION OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE POLICY ON
FLAT RATE PER DIEM FOR LONG-TERM TEMPORARY DUTY
FOR CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES OF THE DEPARTMENT.

(a) Termination.--The policy of the Department of Defense
on flat rate per diem for long-term temporary duty for
civilian employees of the Department (MAP/CAP 118-13),
effective as of November 1, 2014, is hereby terminated, and
the rate of per diem payable for such employees for such duty
after the date of the enactment of this Act shall be the rate
of per diem that was payable for such employees for such duty
as of October 31, 2014.
(b) Funding and Offset.--Within the amounts authorized to
be appropriated for fiscal year 2017 for the Department of
Defense by section 301--
(1) the amount available for Undistributed Operation and
Maintenance as specified in the funding table in section 4301
is hereby increased by $52,000,000, with the amount of the
increase to be available for payment of per diem for long-
term temporary duty for civilian employees of the Department
of Defense in connection with the termination of policy made
by subsection (a); and
(2) the amount available for the Defense Contract
Management Agency as specified in the funding table in
section 4301 is hereby reduced by $52,000,000, with the
amount of the reduction to be applied to amounts otherwise
available for Administration and Servicewide Activities.
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