S.Amdt. 5531

SA 5531. Mrs. BLACKBURN (for herself, Mr. Cotton, Mr. Risch, and Mr. Braun) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 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 G of title V, add the following:

SEC. 589. LIMITATION ON INVOLUNTARY SEPARATION OF MEMBERS OF ARMED FORCES BASED ON COVID-19 VACCINATION STATUS.

A member of an active or reserve component of the Armed Forces may not be involuntarily separated from the Armed Forces based solely on the vaccination status of the member with respect to COVID-19 until the Armed Forces have achieved the end strengths authorized under section 401.