S.Amdt. 465

SA 465. Ms. McSALLY 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 subtitle C of title II, add the following:

SEC. ___. NATIONAL CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE FOR PATHOGEN AND
MICROBIOME ANALYSIS.

(a) Designation.--Not later than 60 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Defense Threat
Reduction Agency shall designate an existing research entity
as a National Center of Excellence for Pathogen and
Microbiome Analysis.
(b) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized
to be appropriated $12,500,000 to carry out this section.
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