[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 139 (Tuesday, August 21, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S5777]
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  SA 3857. Mr. ISAKSON (for himself, Mrs. McCaskill, Mr. Warner, Mr. 
Paul, Mr. Cornyn, Mrs. Gillibrand, and Mr. Kaine) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3695 proposed by Mr. 
Shelby to the bill H.R. 6157, making appropriations for the Department 
of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in title VIII of division A, 
     insert the following:
       Sec. ___. (a) Not later than one year after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United 
     States shall, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense 
     and the Secretaries of the military departments, submit to 
     the appropriate committees of Congress a report on the 
     monitoring, compliance, and remediation by the Department of 
     Defense of lead in military housing, including the lead 
     exposure monitoring protocols of the Department for military 
     housing.
       (b) The report required by subsection (a) shall include the 
     following:
       (1) A description and assessment of the effectiveness of 
     the Department and its lead exposure monitoring protocols in 
     monitoring lead exposure in military housing.
       (2) A description and assessment of the compliance of 
     military housing with applicable lead exposure limitations.
       (3) A description and assessment of the remediation efforts 
     of the Department with respect to lead in military housing.
       (4) Such recommendations as the Comptroller General 
     considers appropriate for the expansion of blood testing for 
     lead among children who have lived in military housing.
       (c) In this section, the term ``appropriate committees of 
     Congress'' means--
       (1) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
     Veterans' Affairs, and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
     Senate; and
       (2) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
     Veterans' Affairs, and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
     House of Representatives.
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