S.Amdt. 494

SA 494. Mr. SCOTT of Florida submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for
fiscal year 2024 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 X, add the following:

SEC. 1025. SUITABLE REPLACEMENT SHIPS FOR NAVY SURFACE
COMBATANT SHIPS.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of the Navy may not retire,
prepare to retire, place in storage or on backup inventory
status, or sell any surface combatant ship until a suitable
replacement ship is delivered to the Navy.
(b) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Suitable replacement ship.--The term ``suitable
replacement ship'' means a ship that can accomplish the same
primary mission of the ship to be retired, prepared to
retired, placed in storage or on backup inventory status, or
sold.
(2) Surface combatant ship.--The term ``surface combatant
ship'' means a ship of any of the following classes:
(A) CVN.
(B) DDG.
(C) CG.
(D) LHA/LHD.
(E) LPD.
(F) LSD.
(G) LCS.
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