[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3185 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3185

    To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize the Defense 
  Language Institute to award a Bachelor of Arts degree in a foreign 
                   language, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 10, 2019

 Mr. Panetta (for himself, Mr. Crow, Mr. Austin Scott of Georgia, Mr. 
   Kim, Mr. Young, Ms. Gabbard, Mr. Cisneros, and Mr. Price of North 
  Carolina) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize the Defense 
  Language Institute to award a Bachelor of Arts degree in a foreign 
                   language, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Defense Language Improvement Act'' 
or the ``DLI Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFENSE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CENTER.

    (a) Authority To Award Bachelor's Degrees.--Section 2168 of title 
10, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in the section heading, by striking ``Associate'' and 
        inserting ``Associate or Bachelor''; and
            (2) by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
    ``(a) Subject to subsection (b), the Commandant of the Defense 
Language Institute may confer--
            ``(1) an Associate of Arts degree in a foreign language 
        upon any graduate of the Foreign Language Center of the 
        Institute who fulfills the requirements for that degree; or
            ``(2) a Bachelor of Arts degree in a foreign language upon 
        any graduate of the Foreign Language Center of the Institute 
        who fulfills the requirements for that degree.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
chapter 108 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by striking the 
item relating to section 2168 and inserting the following new item:

``2168. Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center: degree of 
                            Associate or Bachelor of Arts in foreign 
                            language.''.
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