[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9485 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9485

   To direct the Secretary of Defense to review and update a report 
 regarding the geographical dispersion of units of the Junior Reserve 
                       Officers' Training Corps.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 12, 2022

  Mr. Bacon 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 review and update a report 
 regarding the geographical dispersion of units of the Junior Reserve 
                       Officers' Training Corps.

    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 ``Geographical Dispersion of Junior 
Reserve Officer Training Corps Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. REVIEW AND UPDATE OF REPORT ON GEOGRAPHIC DISPERSION OF JUNIOR 
              RESERVE OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS.

    (a) Report: Review; Update.--The Secretary of Defense, in 
consultation with the Secretaries of the military departments, shall 
review and update the 2017 report from the RAND Corporation titled 
``Geographic and Demographic Representativeness of Junior Reserve 
Officer Training Corps'' (Library of Congress Control Number: 
2017950423).
    (b) Elements.--The report updated under subsection (a) shall 
include the following:
            (1) An assessment of whether there is adequate 
        representation in, and reasonable access to, units of the 
        Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (hereinafter, 
        ``JROTC'') for students in all regions of the of the United 
        States.
            (2) The estimated cost and time to increase the number of 
        units of JROTC to ensure adequate representation and reasonable 
        access described in paragraph (1).
            (3) Recommendations to increase adequate representation and 
        reasonable access described in paragraph (1) in areas of the 
        United States that the Secretary of Defense determines lack 
        such adequate representation and reasonable access.
    (c) Submission.--Not later than one year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the 
Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of 
Representatives the report updated under this section.
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