[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 99 (Thursday, June 13, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3490]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 405. Mr. BENNET submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2020 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 end of subtitle E of title V, add the following:

     SEC. 569. REPORT AND BRIEFING ON THE SENIOR RESERVE OFFICERS' 
                   TRAINING CORPS.

       (a) Report on Various Expansions of the Corps.--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 
     a report setting forth the following:
       (1) An assessment of the feasibility and advisability of 
     distance learning programs for the Senior Reserve Officers' 
     Training Corps for students at educational institutions who 
     reside outside the viable range for a cross-town program.
       (2) An assessment of the feasibility and advisability of 
     expanding the eligibility of institutions authorized to 
     maintain a unit of the Senior Reserve Officers' Training 
     Corps to include community colleges.
       (b) Briefing on Long-term Effects on the Corps of the 
     Operation of Certain Recent Prohibitions.--
       (1) Briefing required.--Not later than 180 days after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense 
     shall brief the congressional defense committees on the 
     effects of the prohibitions in section 8032 of the Department 
     of Defense Appropriations Act, 2019 (division A of Public Law 
     115-245) on the long-term viability of the Senior Reserve 
     Officers' Training Corps (SROTC).
       (2) Elements.--The matters addressed by the briefing under 
     paragraph (1) shall include an assessment of The effects of 
     the prohibitions described in paragraph (1) on the following:
       (A) Readiness.
       (B) The efficient manning and administration of Senior 
     Reserve Officers' Training Corps units.
       (C) The ability of the Armed Forces to commission on a 
     yearly basis the number and quality of new officers they need 
     and that are representative of the nation as a whole .
       (D) The availability of Senior Reserve Officers' Training 
     Corps scholarships in rural areas.
       (E) Whether the Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps 
     program produces officers representative of the demographic 
     and geographic diversity of the United States, especially 
     with respect to urban areas, and whether restrictions on 
     establishing or disestablishing units of the Corps affects 
     the diversity of the officer corps of the Armed Forces.
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