S.Amdt. 2324

SA 2324. Mr. TESTER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2019 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 H of title V, add the following:

SEC. 598. TRANSPORTATION OF REMAINS OF CASUALTIES; TRAVEL
EXPENSES FOR NEXT OF KIN.

(a) Transportation for Remains of a Member Who Dies Not in
a Theater of Combat Operations.--Section 562 of the John
Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
2007 (Public Law 109-364; 10 U.S.C. 1482 note) is amended--
(1) in the heading, by striking ``dying in a theater of
combat operations''; and
(2) in subsection (a), by striking ``in a combat theater of
operations'' and inserting ``outside of the United States''.
(b) Transportation for Family.--The Secretary of Defense
shall revise Department of Defense Instruction 1300.18 to
extend travel privileges via Invitational Travel
Authorization to family members of members of the Armed
Forces who die outside of the United States and whose remains
are returned to the United States through the mortuary
facility at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware.
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