Be careful with this. The language is currently in the bill but it isn't even scheduled to be voted on in the House until Thursday. It will most likely pass, but the Senate is playing games. Normally the NDAA has been "sacred" and kept to only military/national defense items but I heard this morning Senate dems are trying ti insert wording to legalize banking for pot businesses. They haven't been able to get that passed on its own or in any other bills, their time is running out in this Congress, and they think they can tack this on because this bill is passed without fail every year. They already pulled out an energy rider from Manchin, so the pot banking may get pulled out at the last minute as well - we'll just have to see what they vote on Thursday.

Also the bill does NOT reinstate members discharged for failure to take the clot shot. Source. It looks like the bill will ask the Pentagon to "evaluate" allowing members back in, but it is not (currently) law. That can also change in negotiations, so watch that one.

One thing not expected in the bill, however, is language to reinstate troops, sailors and airmen who were discharged or received penalties for declining the vaccine, a provision GOP lawmakers hoped to insert in the legislation.

Instead, lawmakers on the House and Senate Armed Services committees are planning report language for the bill that allows the Pentagon to evaluate service members affected by the mandate, Rogers said.

“There’s no statutory language, but there’s report language that tells the [Defense Department] to ascertain everybody that’s been adversely affected by the vaccine mandate and what it would take to make them whole and get that to us next year. Then we can decide if we want to try to do that or not,” he said.

“Some people aren’t going to want to come back to the military, but if they do, what would that look like? How many people are we talking about?”