S.Amdt. 547

SA 547. Mr. BOOKER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him 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 title XV add the following:

Subtitle C--Response to Ebola Outbreak

SEC. 1531. TRANSFER AUTHORITY FOR EBOLA RESPONSE.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense may transfer
amounts of authorizations made available to the Department of
Defense for overseas contingency operations in this title for
fiscal year 2020 to any other authorization for that fiscal
year to support efforts of the United States Agency for
International Development, the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, and the overseas humanitarian disaster and
civic aid program of the Department to address the Ebola
outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and surrounding
countries.
(b) Notification of Congress.--Not later than 15 days
before the date on which a transfer under subsection (a) is
carried out, the Secretary shall notify the appropriate
committees of Congress of such transfer.
(c) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this
section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress''
means--
(1) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Foreign Relations, and the Committee on Appropriations of the
Senate; and
(2) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on Appropriations of House
of Representatives.
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