S.Amdt. 6014

SA 6014. 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 subtitle C of title VI, add the following:

SEC. 624. CERTAIN ABSENCES WITHOUT LEAVE THAT RESULT FROM CONVICTIONS IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES TO BE CONSIDERED UNAVOIDABLE FOR PURPOSES OF PAY AND ALLOWANCES.

Section 503 of title 37, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:

“(c) Certain Absences Resulting From Convictions in Foreign Countries.--For purposes of subsection (a), the absence without leave or over leave of a member of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, Coast Guard, or National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration shall be excused as unavoidable if--

“(1) the member is absent without leave or over leave because the member is in confinement by civil authorities, or by military authorities for civil authorities, in a foreign country and is tried and convicted in that country; and

“(2) the Secretary concerned determines that extraordinary circumstances justify the excusal of the absence as unavoidable.”.