S.Amdt. 4271

SA 4271. Mr. REED (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) submitted an amendment
intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and
intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2022 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 B of title VII, insert the
following:

SEC. 728. ASSIGNMENT OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL PERSONNEL OF THE
MILITARY DEPARTMENTS TO MILITARY MEDICAL
TREATMENT FACILITIES.

(a) In General.--The Secretaries of the military
departments shall ensure that the Surgeons General of the
Armed Forces carry out fully the requirements of section
712(b)(3) of the John S. McCain National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (Public Law 115-232;
10 U.S.C. 1073c note) by not later than September 30, 2022.
(b) Assignments to Military Medical Treatment Facilities.--
For purposes of carrying out fully the requirements of
section 712(b)(3) of the John S. McCain National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019, as required by
subsection (a), assignment of uniformed medical and dental
personnel to a military medical treatment facility pursuant
to such section may be accomplished by the assignment of such
personnel to an organizational unit of the military
department concerned under a service manpower document with
allocation against a manpower requirement on a Defense Health
Agency manpower document of a military medical treatment
facility with duty at the military medical treatment
facility.
(c) Additional Requirement for Walter Reed National
Military Medical Center.--
(1) Assignment of military personnel.--For fiscal years
2023 through 2027, except as provided in paragraph (2), the
Secretary of Defense shall ensure that the Secretaries of the
military departments assign to the Walter Reed National
Military Medical Center sufficient military personnel to meet
not less than 85 percent of the joint table of distribution
in effect for such facility on December 23, 2016.
(2) Exception.--Paragraph (1) shall not apply to any fiscal
year for which the Secretary of Defense certifies at the
beginning of such fiscal year to the Committees on Armed
Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives that
notwithstanding the failure to meet the requirement under
such paragraph, the Walter Reed National Military Medical
Center is fully capable of carrying out all significant
activities as the premier medical center of the military
health system.
(d) Reports.--
(1) In general.--Not later than September 30, 2022, each
Secretary of a military department shall submit to the
Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of
Representatives a report on the compliance of the military
department concerned with this section.
(2) Elements.--
(A) In general.--Each report required by paragraph (1)
shall include--
(i) an accounting of the number of uniformed personnel and
civilian personnel assigned to a military medical treatment
facility as of October 1, 2019; and
(ii) a comparable accounting as of September 30, 2022.
(B) Explanation.--If the number specified in clause (ii) of
subparagraph (A) is less than the number specified in clause
(i) of such subparagraph, the Secretary concerned shall
provide a full explanation for the reduction.
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