[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 96 (Monday, June 11, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3623]
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  SA 2612. Mr. BLUMENTHAL (for himself and Mr. Wicker) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 5515, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 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:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS OF EQUIPMENT RENTAL.

       (a) Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Equipment Rental.--
       (1) In general.--With respect to any cost-effectiveness 
     analysis for equipment acquisition conducted on or after the 
     date that is 180 days after the date of the enactment of this 
     Act, the head of each executive agency shall consider 
     equipment rental in such cost-effectiveness analysis.
       (2) Federal acquisition regulation.--The Federal 
     Acquisition Regulation shall be revised to implement the 
     requirement under paragraph (1).
       (b) Study of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis.--Not later than 2 
     years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
     Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the 
     Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of 
     Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and 
     Governmental Affairs of the Senate a comprehensive report on 
     the decisions made by the executive agencies with the highest 
     levels of acquisition spending, and a sample of executive 
     agencies with lower levels of acquisition spending, to 
     acquire high-value equipment by lease, rental, or purchase 
     pursuant to subpart 7.4 of the Federal Acquisition 
     Regulation.
       (c) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Equipment rental.--The term ``equipment rental'' means 
     the acquisition of equipment by contract from a commercial 
     source for a temporary period of use with no fixed duration.
       (2) Executive agency.--The term ``executive agency'' has 
     the meaning given that term in section 102 of title 40, 
     United States Code.
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