S.Amdt. 3772

SA 3772. Mr. HEINRICH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 3695 proposed by Mr. Shelby to the bill H.R. 6157,
making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; which was ordered to
lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in title VIII of division A,
insert the following:
Sec. ___.  It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) the Secretary of Defense should use funds appropriated
or otherwise made available by this division to make grants,
conclude cooperative agreements, or supplement other Federal
funds in order to construct, renovate, repair, or expand
elementary and secondary public schools on military
installations in order to address capacity or facility
condition deficiencies at such schools;
(2) in awarding such funds, priority consideration should
be given to military installations with schools having the
most serious capacity or facility condition deficiencies as
determined by the Secretary; and
(3) as a condition of receiving such funds, the local
educational agency or State concerned should continue to
provide a matching share as described in the notice titled
``Department of Defense Program for Construction, Renovation,
Repair or Expansion of Public Schools Located on Military
Installations'' published by the Department of Defense in the
Federal Register on September 9, 2011 (76 Fed. Reg. 55883 et
seq.).
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