S.Amdt. 449

SA 449. Mr. BLUMENTHAL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2024 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. 565. IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPTROLLER GENERAL
RECOMMENDATIONS RELATING TO MILITARY FOSTER AND
ADOPTIVE FAMILIES.

The Secretary of Defense shall--
(1) provide a centralized location for, and promote
awareness of, information about foster and adoption-related
policies and available Department of Defense support to
better assist military foster and adoptive families,
including by providing such information through Military
OneSource, using a designated point person on an
installation, or through an existing installation program
office;
(2) ensure that the Secretary of the Air Force, in
coordination with the Director of Defense Human Resource
Activity, revises AFI 36-3026, Volume 1, in cooperation with
other components of the Department of Defense, as
appropriate, to make it consistent with Department of Defense
regulations on the required documents to enroll foster
children in the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting
System; and
(3) ensure that the Secretaries of the military departments
identify opportunities to regularly promote to the awareness
of all employees responsible for enrollment in the Defense
Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System of accurate
information and guidance with respect to enrolling both
foster and pre-adoptive children, including by coordinating
with relevant offices to promote awareness of the guidance
through annual trainings or other training mechanisms.
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