S.Amdt. 4205

SA 4205. Mr. WARNER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be proposed to
the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022
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 title VI, add the following:

SEC. 607. PILOT PROGRAM FOR PROVISION OF FRESH PRODUCE TO
MEMBERS OF ARMED FORCES.

(a) In General.--The Director of the Defense Commissary
Agency shall establish and carry out, during the one-year
period following the date of the enactment of this Act, a
pilot program under which boxes containing fresh fruit and
vegetables are made available, free of charge, to members of
the Armed Forces and their families at commissaries.
(b) Selection of Locations.--The Director shall carry out
the pilot program required by subsection (a) at 9
commissaries. The Director shall select 3 commissaries from
each of the Eastern, Central, and Western commissary regions
for purposes of the pilot program.
(c) Report Required.--Not later than 90 days after the
conclusion of the pilot program required by subsection (a),
the Director shall submit to the congressional defense
committees a report on the pilot program that assesses--
(1) the effectiveness of the pilot program; and
(2) the feasibility and advisability of providing boxes
containing fresh fruit and vegetables free of charge to
members of the Armed Forces and their families at additional
commissaries.
(d) Authorization of Appropriations.--The amount authorized
to be appropriated by section 1401 and available as specified
in the funding table in section 4501 for the Working Capital
Fund for the Defense Commissary Agency is hereby increased by
$550,000, with the amount of the increase to be available to
carry out the pilot program required by subsection (a).
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