S.Amdt. 5546

SA 5546. Mr. LANKFORD (for himself, Mr. Romney, Mr. Cornyn, and Mr. Lee) 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 title XI, add the following:

SEC. 1115. LIMITATION ON APPOINTMENT OF RETIRED MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES TO CERTAIN POSITIONS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

(a) In General.--Section 3326 of title 5, United States Code, is amended--

(1) in the section heading, by inserting “certain” before “positions”; and

(2) in subsection (b)--

(A) by striking “appointed” and all that follows through “Defense” and inserting “appointed to a position in the excepted or competitive service classified at or above GS-14 of the General Schedule (or equivalent) in or under the Department of Defense”; and

(B) in paragraph (1), by striking “for the purpose” and all that follows through “Management”.

(b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of subchapter I of chapter 33 of such title is amended in the item relating to section 3326 by inserting “certain” before “positions”.