S.Amdt. 530

SA 530. Ms. HARRIS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
her 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 D of title V, add the following:

SEC. 564. PLAN FOR STANDARDIZATION AMONG THE MILITARY
DEPARTMENTS IN COLLECTION AND PRESENTATION OF
INFORMATION ON MATTERS WITHIN THE MILITARY
JUSTICE SYSTEM.

(a) Finding.--According to a report of the Government
Accountability Office dated May 30, 2019 (GAO-19-344), the
military departments do not collect and maintain consistent
race and ethnicity information in their investigations,
military justice, and personnel databases, which ``limits
their ability to collectively or comparatively assess these
data to identify any disparities in the military justice
system within and across the services''.
(b) Plan Required.--Not later than 180 days after the date
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall,
in consultation with the Secretaries of the military
departments, submit to the Committees on Armed Services of
the Senate and the House of Representatives a report setting
forth a plan to provide for the standardization among the
military departments in the collection and presentation of
race, ethnicity, and gender information within their
investigations, military justice, and personnel databases for
the purposes of identifying disparities in the military
justice system.
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