S.Amdt. 2258

SA 2258. Mrs. BLACKBURN submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed by her to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for
fiscal year 2025 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 appropriate place in title X, insert the following:

SEC. __. PROHIBITION AND STUDY RELATING TO MILITARY FABRIC
LABELING.

(a) Prohibition.--The Secretary of Defense shall not
finalize the draft detail specification MIL-DTL-32075B or
otherwise revise, supplement, or bypass detail specification
MIL-DTL-32075A, ``Label: For Clothing, Equipage, and Tentage,
(General Use)''.
(b) Study and Report.--
(1) Study.--The Secretary of Defense shall complete a study
of the military fabric labeling industry that--
(A) examines the rationale for the draft detail
specification MIL-DTL-32075B;
(B) analyzes the anticipated effects of the new fabric
label category under that draft detail specification on--
(i) the safety of members of the Armed Forces; and
(ii) small business label manufacturers; and
(C) evaluates--
(i) how eliminating performance standards would expose
members of the Armed Forces to safety hazards and impair
recalls issued by the Department of Defense;
(ii) the impact of the draft detail specification on small
business manufacturers of type VI labels, including through
interviews with such manufacturers; and
(iii) the number and appropriateness of engineering change
requests or other waivers that evade performance requirements
for type VI labels.
(2) Report.--Not later than one year after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit
to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate a report on
the findings of the study.
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