S.Amdt. 3348

SA 3348. Ms. COLLINS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by her to the bill S. 2296, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2026 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. __. PUBLIC SHIPYARD APPRENTICE PROGRAM.

(a) Fiscal Year 2026 Classes.--During fiscal year 2026, the
Secretary of the Navy shall induct, at each of the Navy
shipyards, a class of not fewer than 100 apprentices.
(b) Fiscal Year 2027 Costs.--The Secretary of the Navy
shall include the costs of the classes of Navy shipyard
apprentices to be inducted in fiscal year 2027 in the
materials of the Department of Defense supporting the fiscal
year 2027 budget request submitted to Congress by the
President pursuant to section 1105(a) of title 31, United
States Code.
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