S.Amdt. 4640

SA 4640. Ms. CANTWELL 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:

At the end of subtitle I of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1097. AUTHORIZATION OF CANINE TEAMS FOR PASSENGER
SCREENING BY TRANSPORTATION SECURITY
ADMINISTRATION.

(a) In General.--The Administrator of the Transportation
Security Administration may employ 178 passenger screening
canine teams over the number of such teams in operation as of
the date of the enactment of this Act.
(b) Authorization of Appropriations.--
(1) In general.--There are authorized to be appropriated to
the Transportation Security Administration for fiscal year
2017 $52,000,000 to carry out subsection (a).
(2) Offset.--The Secretary of Homeland Security shall
reduce amounts available for fiscal year 2017 for the Office
of the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Office of the
Under Secretary for Management, the Office of Chief
Information Officer, and the Office of the Administrator of
Transportation Security Administration on a pro rata basis so
that the aggregate amount of such reductions is equal to the
amount authorized to be appropriated by paragraph (1).
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