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Code · BILL · 115th Congress · H.R. 5515 (Placed on Calendar Senate) — To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military c... · Sec. 1025

Sec. 1025. Retention of Navy hospital ship capability

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The Secretary of the Navy shall retain two T-AH 19 Mercy-class hospital ships at a readiness level that provides for the activation and deployment of each such ship within a period that does not exceed 5 days. The Secretary of the Navy may waive the requirement under subsection
(a)if the Secretary submits to the congressional defense committees certification in writing that the Secretary has— for any T-AH 19 Mercy-class hospital ship to be retired or transferred, identified a replacement capability to meet the combatant commander afloat medical capability for medical and surgical care that is being met by the ship to be retired or transferred; and achieved the initial operational capability of the replacement capability described in paragraph (1).
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