S.Amdt. 6404

SA 6404. Mr. WARNER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 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 F of title V, add the following:

SEC. 575. PROMOTION OF CERTAIN FOOD AND NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.

(a) In General.--Each Secretary concerned shall promote, to members of the Armed Forces under the jurisdiction of the Secretary, awareness of food and nutrition assistance programs administered by--

(1) the Department of Defense; and

(2) the Department of Agriculture.

(b) Reporting.--Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, each Secretary concerned shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report summarizing activities taken by the Secretary to carry out subsection (a).

(c) Definitions.--In this section:

(1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term “appropriate congressional committees” means--

(A) the congressional defense committees;

(B) the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate; and

(C) the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives.

(2) Secretary concerned.--The term “Secretary concerned” has the meaning given that term in section 101 of title 10, United States Code.