S.Amdt. 2429

SA 2429. Mr. BENNET (for himself, Mr. Casey, Mr. Brown, and Mr.
Durbin) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA
2301 proposed by Mr. Inhofe 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, insert the following:

SEC. 549. 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) If the disciplinary action authorized for violations of
policies against the affiliations described in paragraph (1)
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.
(5) An identification and assessment of the extent to which
the number of violations described in paragraph (4) is on the
increase, and a description and assessment of any trends in
the number of such violations.
(6) 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.
(c) Additional Reports in Connection With Increase in
Violations.--If the report under subsection (a) in any of
2022 through 2027 identifies an increase in violations
described in subsection (b)(4) between the two years
preceding the year in which such report is submitted, 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.
(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)(4) 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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