[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 99 (Thursday, June 13, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3534]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 530. Ms. HARRIS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
her 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 D of title V, add the following:

     SEC. 564. PLAN FOR STANDARDIZATION AMONG THE MILITARY 
                   DEPARTMENTS IN COLLECTION AND PRESENTATION OF 
                   INFORMATION ON MATTERS WITHIN THE MILITARY 
                   JUSTICE SYSTEM.

       (a) Finding.--According to a report of the Government 
     Accountability Office dated May 30, 2019 (GAO-19-344), the 
     military departments do not collect and maintain consistent 
     race and ethnicity information in their investigations, 
     military justice, and personnel databases, which ``limits 
     their ability to collectively or comparatively assess these 
     data to identify any disparities in the military justice 
     system within and across the services''.
       (b) Plan Required.--Not later than 180 days after the date 
     of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall, 
     in consultation with the Secretaries of the military 
     departments, submit to the Committees on Armed Services of 
     the Senate and the House of Representatives a report setting 
     forth a plan to provide for the standardization among the 
     military departments in the collection and presentation of 
     race, ethnicity, and gender information within their 
     investigations, military justice, and personnel databases for 
     the purposes of identifying disparities in the military 
     justice system.
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