S.Amdt. 1735

SA 1735. Mr. BENNET (for himself, Mr. Casey, Mr. Brown, and Mr.
Durbin) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the
bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2021 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. ___. ANNUAL REPORTS ON MILITARY PERSONNEL AND EXTREMIST
IDEOLOGIES.

(a) In General.--Not later than February 28 each year, the
Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional
defense committees a report that sets forth a description and
assessment of the interaction between members of the Armed
Forces and extremist ideologies during the preceding year.
(b) Elements.--Each report under subsection (a) shall
include, for the year covered by such report, the following:
(1) A description of the current policies of the Department
of Defense, and each Armed Force, on affiliations between
members of the Armed Forces and recruits to the Armed Forces
and white supremacist, neo-Nazi, terrorist, gang, and other
extremist ideologies.
(2) A description and assessment of the current procedures
used by the Department, and each Armed Force, to identify and
mitigate the affiliations described in paragraph (1).
(3) An assessment of the recruitment tactics and practices
used by organizations that propound ideologies referred to in
paragraph (1) toward members and potential members of the
Armed Forces, including a description of the evolution of
such tactics and practices.
(4) A listing of the installations currently subject to
orders banning hate speech, and affiliated symbols, among
installation personnel.
(5) The number of violations of policies against the
affiliations described in paragraph (1), including hate
crimes, and the number of reports of such violations,
identified by the Department, and by each Armed Force, and a
description of each such violation, (including the nature of
such affiliation and the disciplinary or other measures taken
in response to such violation).
(6) If the disciplinary action authorized for violations
described in paragraph (5) included administrative separation
from the Armed Forces--
(A) the number of individuals administratively separated
from the Armed Forces in connection with such violations; and
(B) the number of individuals retained in the Armed Forces
notwithstanding a substantiated finding of such a violation.
(7) An identification and assessment of the extent to which
the number of such violations is on the increase, and a
description and assessment of any trends in the number of
such violations.
(8) A description and assessment of the training provided
to members of the Armed Forces in order combat the ideologies
referred to in paragraph (1), and an identification of each
Armed Force that provides implicit bias training, including a
description of such training, the frequency of such training,
and the recipients of such training.
(9) A description and assessment of the frequency of
assessments of the culture of diversity, equity, and
inclusion in the Armed Forces.
(10) A description of any programs of the Department, and
of the Armed Forces, that showed results in increasing
diversity in the Armed Forces and among the grades of the
Armed Forces.
(c) Additional Report in Connection With Increase in
Violations.--If the report under subsection (a) in 2022
identifies an increase in violations described in subsection
(b)(5) between 2020 and 2021, the Secretary of Defense shall
submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and
the House of Representatives an additional report setting
forth the results of a study, conducted for purposes of this
subsection by an entity outside the Department of Defense
selected by the Secretary for purposes of this subsection, on
the following:
(1) The causes of the increase.
(2) Recommendations for measures to address the increase.

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(d) Additional Elements on Trends in Violations.--Each
report under subsection (a) shall also include the following:
(1) A description and assessment of the trend in violations
described in subsection (b)(5) between the year covered by
such report and the year preceding the year covered by such
report.
(2) A description and assessment of the work undertaken by
the Department of Defense with other departments and agencies
of the Federal Government, including the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, to identify the extent and nature of such
trend.
(e) Form.--Each report under this section shall be
submitted in unclassified form, but may include information
in a classified annex only to the extent that submittal of
such information in classified form is the sole basis on
which such information is submittable to Congress.
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