[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4987 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4987

   To direct the Secretary of Defense to provide annual reports and 
briefings on the Global Force Management Allocation Plan, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 6, 2021

 Mr. Wittman introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
   To direct the Secretary of Defense to provide annual reports and 
briefings on the Global Force Management Allocation Plan, 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 ``Global Force Management Oversight 
Act''.

SEC. 2. ANNUAL REPORT AND BRIEFING ON GLOBAL FORCE MANAGEMENT 
              ALLOCATION PLAN.

    (a) Report.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than April 1 each year, the 
        Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense 
        committees a report on the Global Force Management Allocation 
        Plan.
            (2) Elements.--Each report submitted under paragraph (1) 
        shall include the following:
                    (A) A detailed description of the Global Force 
                Management Allocation Plan as originally approved by 
                the Secretary for--
                            (i) the preceding calendar year; and
                            (ii) the calendar year during which the 
                        report is submitted.
                    (B) A detailed description of any differences 
                between the actual allocations of forces or final 
                laydown of forces at the end of the preceding calendar 
                year and the allocations of forces and laydown of 
                forces stipulated in the Global Force Management 
                Allocation Plan for that calendar year.
                    (C) A list of all requests for forces made by the 
                geographic combatant commands in the preceding calendar 
                year, including a description of each request and a 
                justification for the approval, denial, or deferral of 
                the request.
            (3) Form.--Each report submitted under this subsection 
        shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a 
        classified annex.
    (b) Briefing.--Not later than 30 days after the date on which each 
report under subsection (a) is submitted, the Secretary shall provide 
to the congressional defense committees a classified briefing on the 
contents of the report.
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