S.Amdt. 718

SA 718. Mr. KENNEDY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him 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 D of title VI, add the following:

SEC. ___. REPORT ON MANAGEMENT OF MILITARY COMMISSARIES AND
EXCHANGES.

(a) Report Required.--Not later than 180 days after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense
shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report
regarding management practices of military commissaries and
exchanges.
(b) Elements.--The report required under this section shall
include a cost-benefit analysis with the goals of--
(1) reducing the costs of operating military commissaries
and exchanges by $2,000,000,000 during fiscal years 2018
through 2022; and
(2) not raising costs for patrons of military commissaries
and exchanges.
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