S.Amdt. 6426

SA 6426. Ms. ERNST 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 appropriate place in title XI, insert the following:

SEC. ___. AUTHORITY OF ARMY COUNTERINTELLIGENCE AGENTS TO EXECUTE WARRANTS AND MAKE ARRESTS.

(a) Authority to Execute Warrants and Make Arrests.--Section 7377 of title 10, United States Code, is amended--

(1) in the section heading, by inserting “and the Army Counterintelligence Command” before the colon; and

(2) in subsection (b)--

(A) by striking “any employee of the Department of the Army who is” and inserting the following: “any employee of the Department of the Army--

“(1) who is”;

(B) in paragraph (1) (as so designated) by striking the period at the end and inserting “; or”; and

(C) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:

“(2) who is a special agent of the Army Counterintelligence Command (or a successor to that command) whose duties include conducting, supervising, or coordinating counterintelligence investigations involving potential or alleged violations punishable under chapter 37, 113B, or 115 of title 18 and similar offenses punishable under this title.”.

(b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 747 of such title is amended by striking the item relating to section 7377 and inserting the following new item:

“7377. Civilian special agents of the Criminal Investigation Command and the Army Counterintelligence Command: authority to execute warrants and make arrests.”.