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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextSA 5850. Mr. CRUZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 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, insert the following:
SEC. __. LIMITATION AND REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO
EXPEDITIONARY COMBAT AVIATION BRIGADES.
(a) Limitation.—None of the funds authorized to be
appropriated or otherwise made available for any of fiscal
years 2027 through 2031 for the Army may be obligated or
expended to retire, deactivate, schedule to deactivate, or
proceed with any other action that would reduce the aircraft,
capabilities, resources, or personnel available, as of the
date of the enactment of this Act, for the Expeditionary
Combat Aviation Brigades unless the Secretary of the Army
submits to the congressional defense committees—
(1) a certification that the Secretary of the Army plans to
recapitalize any such aircraft for the Expeditionary Combat
Aviation Brigades and to otherwise restore any such
capabilities, resources, or personnel levels reduced; and
(2) the plan of the Secretary of the Army for the actions
specified in paragraph (1).
(b) Requirement to Restore.—
(1) Requirement.—Not later than one year after the date of
the enactment of this Act, for any Expeditionary Combat
Aviation Brigade that, prior to such date of enactment, the
Secretary of the Army retired or deactivated (or carried out
any other activity to reduce the aircraft, capabilities,
resources, or personnel thereof), the Secretary of the Army
shall reinstate or reactivate such brigade, or otherwise
restore such brigade to the levels preceding such reduction,
as the case may be.
(2) Report.—Not later than one year after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Army shall submit
to the congressional defense committees a report on the
implementation of this subsection.
(c) Plan Required.—Not later than 180 days after the date
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Army shall
submit to the congressional defense committees a plan to
sustain and modernize the aircraft used by the Expeditionary
Combat Aviation Brigades.
(d) Authorization of Appropriations.—There is authorized
to be appropriated to the Department of the Army for the
operation of aircraft, and training for such operation, by
the Expeditionary Combat Aviation Brigades $35,000,000 for
fiscal year 2027.