[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 59 (Tuesday, May 12, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S4738]
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      THE NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1999

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                      BROWNBACK AMENDMENT NO. 2393

  (Ordered to lie on the table.)
  Mr. BROWNBACK submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him 
to the bill, S. 2057, supra; as follows:

       Strike out section 527, and insert in lieu thereof the 
     following:

     SEC. 527. REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO RECRUIT BASIC TRAINING.

       (a) Army.--(1) Chapter 401 of title 10, United States Code, 
     is amended by adding at the end the following new section:

     ``Sec. 4319. Recruit basic training: separate housing and 
       privacy for male and female recruits

       ``(a) Separate Housing Facilities.--The Secretary of the 
     Army shall require that during basic training male and female 
     recruits be housed in separate barracks or other troop 
     housing facilities.
       ``(b) Housing Privacy.--The Secretary of the Army shall 
     require that access by drill sergeants and other training 
     personnel to a barracks floor on which recruits are housed 
     during basic training shall be limited after the end of the 
     training day, other than in the case of an emergency or other 
     exigent circumstance, to drill sergeants and other training 
     personnel who are of the same sex as the recruits housed on 
     that floor.
       ``(c) Basic Training Defined.--In this section, the term 
     `basic training' means the initial entry training program of 
     the Army that constitutes the basic training of new 
     recruits.''.
       (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter 
     is amended by adding at the end the following new item:
``4319. Recruit basic training: separate housing and privacy for male 
              and female recruits.''.
       (b) Navy and Marine Corps.--(1) Part III of subtitle C of 
     title 10, United States Code, is amended by inserting after 
     chapter 601 the following new chapter:

                   ``CHAPTER 602--TRAINING GENERALLY

``Sec.
``6931. Recruit basic training: separate housing and privacy for male 
              and female recruits.

     ``Sec. 6931. Recruit basic training: separate housing and 
       privacy for male and female recruits

       ``(a) Separate Housing.--The Secretary of the Navy shall 
     require that during basic training male and female recruits 
     be housed in separate barracks or other troop housing 
     facilities.
       ``(b) Housing Privacy.--The Secretary of the Navy shall 
     require that access by recruit division commanders and other 
     training personnel to a barracks floor on which Navy recruits 
     are housed during basic training shall be limited after the 
     end of the training day, other than in the case of an 
     emergency or other exigent circumstance, to recruit division 
     commanders and other training personnel who are of the same 
     sex as the recruits housed on that floor.
       ``(c) Basic Training Defined.--In this section, the term 
     `basic training' means the initial entry training programs of 
     the Navy and Marine Corps that constitute the basic training 
     of new recruits.''.
       (2) The tables of chapters at the beginning of subtitle C, 
     and at the beginning of part III of subtitle C, of such title 
     are amended by inserting after the item relating to chapter 
     601 the following new item:

``602. Training Generally...................................6931''.....

       (c) Air Force.--(1) Chapter 901 of title 10, United States 
     Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
     section:

     ``Sec. 9319. Recruit basic training: separate housing and 
       privacy for male and female recruits

       ``(a) Separate Housing.--The Secretary of the Air Force 
     shall require that during basic training male and female 
     recruits be housed in separate dormitories or other troop 
     housing facilities.
       ``(b) Housing Privacy.--The Secretary of the Air Force 
     shall require that access by drill sergeants and other 
     training personnel to a dormitory floor on which recruits are 
     housed during basic training shall be limited after the end 
     of the training day, other than in the case of an emergency 
     or other exigent circumstance, to drill sergeants and other 
     training personnel who are of the same sex as the recruits 
     housed on that floor.
       ``(c) Basic Training Defined.--In this section, the term 
     `basic training' means the initial entry training program of 
     the Air Force that constitutes the basic training of new 
     recruits.''.
       (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter 
     is amended by adding at the end the following new item:

``9319. Recruit basic training: separate housing and privacy for male 
              and female recruits.''.
       (d) Implementation.--(1) The Secretary of the Army, the 
     Secretary of the Navy, or the Secretary of the Air Force 
     shall implement section 4319, 6931, or 9319, respectively, of 
     title 10, United States Code (as added by this section), as 
     rapidly as feasible and shall ensure that the provisions of 
     that section are applied to all recruit basic training 
     classes beginning not later than the first such class that 
     enters basic training on or after April 15, 1999.
       (2)(A) If the Secretary of the military department 
     concerned determines that it is not feasible, during some or 
     all of the period beginning on April 15, 1999, and ending on 
     October 1, 2001, to comply with the requirement for separate 
     housing at any particular installation at which basic 
     training is conducted because facilities at that installation 
     are insufficient for such purpose, the Secretary may grant a 
     waiver of the requirement with respect to that installation. 
     Any such waiver may not be in effect after October 1, 2001, 
     and may only be in effect while the facilities at that 
     installation are insufficient for the purposes of compliance 
     with the requirement for separate housing.
       (B) If the Secretary of a military department grants a 
     waiver under subparagraph (A) with respect to an 
     installation, the Secretary shall require that male and 
     female recruits in basic training at that installation during 
     any period that the waiver is in effect not be housed on the 
     same floor of a barracks or other troop housing facility.
       (3) In this subsection:
       (A) The term ``requirement for separate housing'' means--
       (i) with respect to the Army, the requirement set forth in 
     section 4319(a) of title 10, United States Code, as added by 
     subsection (a);
       (ii) with respect to the Navy and the Marine Corps, the 
     requirement set forth in section 6931(a) of such title, as 
     added by subsection (b); and
       (iii) with respect to the Air Force, the requirement set 
     forth in section 9319(a) of such title, as added by 
     subsection (c).
       (B) The term ``basic training'' means the initial entry 
     training program of an armed force that constitutes the basic 
     training of new recruits.

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