S.Amdt. 456

SA 456. Mr. TESTER (for himself and Mr. Moran) submitted an amendment
intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 1790, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2020 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 III, add the following:

SEC. 360. REQUIREMENT TO INCLUDE FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
IN READINESS REPORTING SYSTEMS OF DEPARTMENT OF
DEFENSE.

Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of
this Act, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of each
military department shall include in the Global Readiness and
Force Management Enterprise, for the appropriate billets with
relevant foreign language requirements, measures of foreign
language proficiency as a mandatory element of unit readiness
reporting, to include the Defense Readiness Reporting
Systems-Strategic (DRRS-S) and all other subordinate systems
that report readiness data.
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