S.Amdt. 2609

SA 2609. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 2282 submitted by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr. McCain)
and intended to be proposed 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 D of title I, add the following new
section:

SEC. 144. CONVERSION OF F-22 AIRCRAFT.

(a) Contract Authority.--The Secretary of the Air Force may
enter into one or more contracts, beginning with the fiscal
year 2019 program year, to convert up to 34 F-22 aircraft of
the Air Force from a Block 20 configuration to a Block 35
configuration.
(b) Condition for Out-year Contract Payments.--A contract
entered into under subsection (a) shall provide that any
obligation of the United States to make a payment under the
contract for a fiscal year after fiscal year 2019 is subject
to the availability of appropriations or funds for that
purpose for such later fiscal year.
(c) Funding.--Notwithstanding the amounts set forth in the
funding tables in division D, the amount authorized to be
appropriated in section 4101 for procurement, as specified in
the corresponding funding table in section 4101, for Aircraft
Procurement, Air Force, is hereby increased by $98,000,000
(to be used to carry out subsection (a)).
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