S.Amdt. 2844

SA 2844. Mr. BROWN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2025 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 X, insert the following:

SEC. ___. IMPORTANCE OF HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND
UNIVERSITIES AND MINORITY-SERVING INSTITUTIONS.

(a) Increase.--The amount authorized to be appropriated for
fiscal year 2025 by section 201 is hereby increased by
$20,000,000, with the amount of the increase to be available
for Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Defense-
wide, Basic Research, for Historically Black Colleges and
Universities/Minority Institutions [(PE 0601228D8Z)], as
specified in the funding table in section 4201.
(b) Offset.--The amount authorized to be appropriated for
fiscal year 2025 by section 301 is hereby reduced by
$20,000,000, with the amount of the reduction to be derived
from Operation and Maintenance, Defense-wide, Administration
and Service-wide Activities, for the Office of the Secretary
of Defense [(line 490)], as specified in the funding table in
section 4301.
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