[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 82 (Tuesday, May 24, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S3118]
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  SA 4133. Mr. McCAIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 2943, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2017 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:

       After section 502, insert the following:

     SEC. 502A. REDUCTION IN NUMBER OF GENERAL AND FLAG OFFICERS.

       (a) Plan for Achievement of Reduction.--Commencing not 
     later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this 
     Act, the Secretary of Defense shall implement a plan to 
     reduce the number of general and flag officers authorized by 
     sections 525 and 526 of title 10, United States Code, in 
     order to comply with sections 501 and 502 of this Act.
       (b) Time for Completion.--The plan shall be implemented so 
     as to comply with the requirements in sections 501 and 502 of 
     this Act by not later than December 31, 2017.
       (c) Orderly Transition.--
       (1) In general.--In order to provide an orderly transition 
     for personnel in billets to be eliminated pursuant to the 
     plan, each general or flag officer who has not completed 24 
     months in a billet to be eliminated pursuant to the plan as 
     of December 31, 2017, may remain in such billet until the 
     last day of the month that is 24 months after the month in 
     which such officer assumed the duties of such billet.
       (2) Report to congress on covered officers.--The Secretary 
     shall include in the annual report required by section 526(j) 
     of title 10, United States Code, in 2017 a description of the 
     billets in which an officer will remain pursuant to paragraph 
     (1), including the latest date on which the officer may 
     remain in such billet pursuant to that paragraph.
       (3) Notice to congress on detachment of covered officers.--
     The Secretary shall submit to the Committees on Armed 
     Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a 
     notice on the date on which each officer covered by paragraph 
     (1) is detached from such officer's billet pursuant to that 
     paragraph.
       (d) Reports on Progress in Implementation.--The Secretary 
     shall include with the budget for the Department of Defense 
     for each of fiscal year 2018 and 2019, as submitted to 
     Congress pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United States 
     Code, a report describing and assessing the progress of the 
     Department in implementing the plan and in achieving 
     compliance with the requirements of sections 501 and 502 of 
     this Act.
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