- Record: Senate Floor
- Section type: Amendments
- Chamber: Senate
- Date: June 24, 2026
- Congress: 119th Congress
- Why this source matters: This section came from the Senate floor portion of the record.
SA 6268. Mr. SCHATZ 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 end of subtitle D of title XVIII, add the following:
SEC. 2873. PROHIBITION OF REPROGRAMMING OF FUNDS TO PAY FOR
DAMAGES FROM IRANIAN STRIKES WITHOUT EXPLICIT
CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL; REPORT ON DAMAGES.
(a) In General.—None of the amounts authorized to be
appropriated by this Act may be reprogrammed to support
reconstruction of facilities or installations of the United
States or a partner country damaged by Iranian strikes
without the explicit authorization in an Act of Congress.
(b) Report Required.—
(1) In general.—Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall
submit to the congressional defense committees a report that
sets forth a comprehensive assessment of the damage and cost
to United States facilities and installations from Iranian
strikes during the 2026 conflict with Iran.
(2) Elements.—The report required by paragraph (1) shall
include—
(A) the estimated costs to rebuild the facilities and
installations described in that paragraph as the facilities
and installations were before the conflict with Iran;
(B) an assessment of the need to rebuild those facilities
and installations to the same specifications; and
(C) informed by the demonstrated capabilities of Iranian
strikes—
(i) an initial determination of the resilience of each such
facility and installation; and
(ii) a recommendation with respect to whether the facility
or installation should be rebuilt at its existing site, a new
location, or not rebuilt.