S.Amdt. 2831

SA 2831. Mr. PORTMAN 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 C of title II, add the following:

SEC. ___. SENSE OF THE SENATE ON RESEARCH REGARDING BLAST
EXPOSURE ON THE CELLULAR LEVEL OF THE BRAIN.

It is the sense of the Senate that--
(1) further research is necessary regarding blast exposure
on the cellular level of the brain;
(2) such research is needed to develop blast protection
requirements for helmets and other personal protective
equipment; and
(3) the Office of Naval Research should increase ongoing
efforts, to the maximum extent possible, to develop a
predictive traumatic brain injury model for blast, in order
to better understand the cellular response to blast impulses
and the interaction of the human brain and protective
equipment related to blast exposure.
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