S.Amdt. 3586

SA 3586. Ms. LUMMIS 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 end of subtitle C of title VI, add the following:

SEC. 629. MESS FACILITY MEALS FOR MEMBERS ASSIGNED TO MISSILE
ALERT FACILITIES.

Section 402 of title 37, United States Code, is amended--
(1) by redesignating subsection (i) as subsection (j); and
(2) by inserting after subsection (h) the following new
subsection (i):
``(i) Members Assigned to Missile Alert Facilities.--A
member of the Air Force serving on active duty who receives a
basic allowance for subsistence under this section may, when
assigned to a missile alert facility, elect--
``(1) to obtain meals provided in the mess facility of the
missile alert facility; and
``(2) to have the basic allowance for subsistence of the
member reduced by an amount the Secretary of the Air Force
determines is equivalent to the cost of those meals.''.
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