S.Amdt. 536

SA 536. Mrs. CAPITO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
her to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2018 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:

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At the end of subtitle E of title V, add the following:

SEC. ___. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS TO DISESTABLISH SENIOR
RESERVE OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS PROGRAMS.

No amounts authorized to be appropriated by this Act may be
used to--
(1) disestablish, or prepare to disestablish, a Senior
Reserve Officers' Training Corps program in accordance with
Department of Defense Instruction Number 1215.08, dated June
26, 2006; or
(2) close, downgrade from host to extension center, or
place on probation a Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps
program in accordance with the information paper of the
Department of the Army titled ``Army Senior Reserve Officers
Training Corps (SROTC) Program Review and Criteria'' and
dated January 27, 2014, or any successor information paper or
policy of the Department of the Army.
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