To prohibit the availability of funds for retirment of E-8 JSTARS aircraft.

SA 1032. Mr. ISAKSON (for himself, Mr. Perdue, Mr. Graham, and Mr.
Cotton) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA
1003 proposed by Mr. McCain (for himself and Mr. Reed) to the bill H.R.
2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2018 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 D of title I, add the following:

SEC. ___. PROHIBITION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR RETIREMENT
OF E-8 JSTARS AIRCRAFT.

(a) Prohibition on Available of Funds for Retirement.--
Except as provided by subsection (b), none of the funds
authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made
available for fiscal year 2018 for the Air Force may be
obligated or expended to retire, or prepare to retire, any E-
8 Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System aircraft.

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(b) Exception.--The prohibition in subsection (a) shall not
apply to individual Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar
System aircraft that the Secretary of the Air Force
determines, on a case-by-case basis, to be non-operational
because of mishaps, other damage, or being uneconomical to
repair.
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