To require a Comptroller General of the United States report on the monitoring, compliance, and remediation of lead in military housing.

SA 3857. Mr. ISAKSON (for himself, Mrs. McCaskill, Mr. Warner, Mr.
Paul, Mr. Cornyn, Mrs. Gillibrand, and Mr. Kaine) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3695 proposed by Mr.
Shelby to the bill H.R. 6157, making appropriations for the Department
of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in title VIII of division A,
insert the following:
Sec. ___. (a) Not later than one year after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United
States shall, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense
and the Secretaries of the military departments, submit to
the appropriate committees of Congress a report on the
monitoring, compliance, and remediation by the Department of
Defense of lead in military housing, including the lead
exposure monitoring protocols of the Department for military
housing.
(b) The report required by subsection (a) shall include the
following:
(1) A description and assessment of the effectiveness of
the Department and its lead exposure monitoring protocols in
monitoring lead exposure in military housing.
(2) A description and assessment of the compliance of
military housing with applicable lead exposure limitations.
(3) A description and assessment of the remediation efforts
of the Department with respect to lead in military housing.
(4) Such recommendations as the Comptroller General
considers appropriate for the expansion of blood testing for
lead among children who have lived in military housing.
(c) In this section, the term ``appropriate committees of
Congress'' means--
(1) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Veterans' Affairs, and the Committee on Appropriations of the
Senate; and
(2) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Veterans' Affairs, and the Committee on Appropriations of the
House of Representatives.
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