S.Amdt. 612

SA 612. Mr. WARNER 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. 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--

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(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.
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