S.Amdt. 759

SA 759. Mr. BROWN (for himself, Mr. Booker, Mr. Warnock, and Mr.
Kaine) 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 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 2024 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 2024 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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