S.Amdt. 4541

SA 4541. Ms. HIRONO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
her to the bill S. 2943, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2017 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 E of title V, add the following:

SEC. 565. COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES REPORT ON
THE DEMOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION OF THE SERVICE
ACADEMIES.

(a) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United
States shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of
the Senate and the House of Representatives a report on the
demographic composition of the service academies.
(b) Elements.--The report required by subsection (a) shall
include, for each service academy, the following:
(1) The gender and ethnic group (in this subsection
referred as the ``demographic composition'') of the recruits
in the four most recent matriculating classes.
(2) The demographic composition of the nominees in the four
most recent matriculating classes.
(3) The demographic composition of the applicants in the
four most recent matriculating classes.
(4) The demographic composition of the four most recent
graduating classes.
(5) The number, demographic composition, and current grades
of graduates on active duty of each graduating class that
graduated 10 years, 20 years, and 25 years before the current
graduating class.
(c) Service Academies Defined.--In this section, the term
``services academies'' means the following:
(1) The United States Military Academy.
(2) The Naval Academy.
(3) The Air Force Academy.
(4) The Coast Guard Academy.
(5) The Merchant Marine Academy.
______