[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 99 (Thursday, June 13, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3493]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 414. Mr. TESTER (for himself and Mr. Moran) 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 III, add the following:

     SEC. 360. REQUIREMENT TO INCLUDE FOREIGN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE 
                   PROFICIENCY IN READINESS REPORTING SYSTEMS OF 
                   DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

       Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of each 
     military department shall include in the Global Readiness and 
     Force Management Enterprise, for the appropriate billets with 
     relevant foreign language requirements, measures of foreign 
     language as a mandatory element of unit readiness reporting, 
     to include the Defense Readiness Reporting Systems-Strategic 
     (DRRS-S) and all other subordinate systems that report 
     readiness data.
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