To require a review of effects of personnel requirements and limitations on the availability of members of the National Guard for the performance of funeral honors duty for veterans.

SA 1021. Ms. HARRIS (for herself, Mr. Rubio, and Mrs. Feinstein)
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill H.R.
2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2018 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 B of title V, add the following:

SEC. ___. REVIEW OF EFFECTS OF PERSONNEL REQUIREMENTS AND
LIMITATIONS ON THE AVAILABILITY OF MEMBERS OF
THE NATIONAL GUARD FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF
FUNERAL HONORS DUTY FOR VETERANS.

(a) Review Required.--The Secretary of Defense shall
undertake a review of the effects of the personnel
requirements and limitations described in subsection (b) with
respect to the members of the National Guard in order to
determine whether or not such requirements unduly limit the
ability of the Armed Forces to meet the demand for personnel
to perform funeral honors in connection with funerals of
veterans
(b) Personnel Requirements and Limitations.--The personnel
requirements and limitations described in this subsection are
the following:
(1) Requirements, such as the ceiling on the authorized
number of members of the National Guard on active duty
pursuant to section 115(b)(2)(B) of title 10, United States
Code, or end-strength limitations, that may operate to limit
the number of members of the National Guard available for the
performance of funeral honors duty.
(2) Any other requirements or limitations applicable to the
reserve components of the Armed Forces in general, or the
National Guard in particular, that may operate to limit the
number of members of the National Guard available for the
performance of funeral honors duty.
(c) Report.--Not later than six months after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the
Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of
Representatives a report on the review undertaken pursuant to
subsection (a). The report shall include the following:
(1) A description of the review.
(2) Such recommendations as the Secretary considers
appropriate in light of the review for legislative or
administrative action to expand the number of members of the
National Guard available for the performance of funeral
honors functions at funerals of veterans.
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