S.Amdt. 261

SA 261. Ms. DUCKWORTH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by her to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2020 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 part I of subtitle F of title V, add the
following:

SEC. 574. EXPANSION OF THE DEFENSE DEPENDENTS' EDUCATION
SYSTEM.

(a) Defense Dependents' Education System.--Paragraph (4) of
section 1414(4) of the Defense Dependents' Education Act of
1978 (20 U.S.C. 932) is amended to read as follows:
``(4) The term `United States', when used in a geographic
sense, means the several States and the District of
Columbia.''.
(b) Teacher Pay and Practices.--Paragraph (4) of section 2
of the Defense Department Overseas Teachers Pay and Personnel
Practices Act (20 U.S.C. 901) is amended to read as follows:
``(4) The term `United States', when used in a geographic
sense, means the several States and the District of
Columbia.''.
(c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section
shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act,
and shall apply to academic years of the defense dependents'
education system that begin on or after that date.
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