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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextSA 6299. Ms. COLLINS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her 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 C of title VIII, add the
following:
SEC. 850. REGULATIONS APPLICABLE TO WEARING OPTIONAL COMBAT
BOOTS.
(a) In General.—Not later than two years after the date
of the enactment of this section, the Secretary of Defense
shall issue regulations to prohibit any member of the Armed
Forces from wearing optional combat boots as part of a
required uniform unless the optional combat boots are
entirely manufactured in the United States and entirely made
of—
(1) materials grown, reprocessed, reused, or produced in
the United States; and
(2) components that are manufactured entirely in the
United States and entirely made of materials described in
paragraph (1).
(b) Waiver.—The requirements of subsection (a) may be
waived if a member of the Armed Forces provides a medical
justification authorized by the commanding officer of such
member to wear optional combat boots as part of a required
uniform.
(c) Exception.—The requirements of subsection (a) shall
not apply to a member of the Armed Forces within a combat
arms military occupational specialty who is in a deployed
status.
(d) Definitions.—In this section:
(1) The term “optional combat boots”, with respect to a
member of the Armed Forces, means combat boots not furnished
to such member of the Armed Forces by the Secretary of
Defense.
(2) The term “required uniform” means a uniform a
member of the Armed Forces is required to wear as a member of
the Armed Forces.