S.Amdt. 2422

SA 2422. Mr. HELLER (for himself and Ms. Hirono) 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 appropriate place in title X, insert the following:

SEC. ___. DETERMINATION OF CERTAIN SERVICE IN PHILIPPINES
DURING WORLD WAR II.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense, in consultation
with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and such military
historians as the Secretary of Defense considers appropriate,
shall establish a process to determine whether a covered
individual served as described in subsection (a) or (b) of
section 107 of title 38, United States Code, for purposes of
determining whether such covered individual is eligible for
benefits described in such subsections.
(b) Covered Individuals.--For purposes of this section, a
covered individual is any individual who--
(1) claims service described in subsection (a) or (b) of
section 107 of title 38, United States Code; and
(2) is not included in the Approved Revised Reconstructed
Guerilla Roster of 1948, known as the ``Missouri List''.
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