S.Amdt. 4537

SA 4537. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him 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 E of title III, add the following:

SEC. 341. MITIGATION OF RISKS POSED BY ZIKA VIRUS.

(a) Insect Repellant and Other Measures to Protect Service
Members From the Zika Virus.--Funds authorized to be
appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for
operation and maintenance, Defense-wide, shall be made
available for the deployment of insect repellant and other
appropriate measures for members of the Armed Forces and
Department of Defense civilian personnel stationed in or
deployed to areas affected by the Zika virus, as well as the
treatment for insects at military installations located in
areas affected by the Zika virus inside and outside the
United States. The Department shall provide support as
appropriate to foreign governments to counter insects at
foreign military installations where members of the Armed
Forces and Department of Defense civilian personnel are
stationed in areas affected by the Zika virus.
(b) Report on Efforts to Mitigate Risk to Service Members
Posed by the Zika Virus.--Not later than 90 days after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense
shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report
on the risk members of the Armed Forces face of contracting
the Zika virus and the mitigation efforts being taken by the
Department of Defense in response. The report shall include a
strategy to counter the virus should it become a long-term
issue.
(c) Areas Affected by the Zika Virus Defined.--In this
section, the term ``areas affected by the Zika virus'' means
areas under a level 2 or level 3 travel advisory notice
issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
related to the Zika virus.
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