[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 99 (Thursday, June 13, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3503]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 456. 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 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 proficiency 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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