S.Amdt. 2818

SA 2818. Mr. TESTER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 2282 proposed by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr. McCain)
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 E of title V, add the following:

SEC. 558. IMPROVEMENT OF AUTHORITY ON LANGUAGE TRAINING
CENTERS FOR MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES AND
CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF
DEFENSE.

(a) Requirement for Program.--
(1) In general.--Subsection (a) of section 529 of the
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 (10
U.S.C. 2001 note prec.) is amended by striking ``may carry
out'' and inserting ``shall carry out''.
(2) Conforming amendments.--Such section is further amended
by striking ``authorized by subsection (a)'' each place it
appears and inserting ``required by subsection (a)''.
(b) Funding.--From amounts authorized to be appropriated
for fiscal year 2019 for the Defense Language and National
Security Education Office, amounts shall be available to
support Language Training Centers.
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