[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5811]
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  SA 6294. Ms. COLLINS (for herself, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. King, and Ms. 
Hassan) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 
5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) and intended to 
be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for 
fiscal year 2023 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 F of title V, add the following:

     SEC. 575. SUPPORT FOR DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE-AFFILIATED 
                   FAMILIES SUPPLANTED FROM DEPARTMENT CHILD 
                   DEVELOPMENT CENTERS.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense, in coordination 
     with the Secretaries of the military departments, shall take 
     actions to support and accommodate Department of Defense-
     affiliated families who were supplanted from Department child 
     development centers on or after January, 1 2022.
       (b) Actions to Be Taken.--The Secretary shall consider the 
     following actions to assist families described in subsection 
     (a):
       (1) Assisting with identifying child care options within 
     the local community.
       (2) Providing financial assistance, when authorized by law, 
     for the purpose of securing child care during duty hours.
       (3) Authorizing flexible duty shifts when both members of 
     such a family are employees or contractors of the Department.
       (4) Such other actions as the Secretary, in consultation 
     with the Secretaries of the military departments, considers 
     appropriate.
       (c) Report Required.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than March 1, 2023, the 
     Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committees on Armed 
     Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a 
     report on the supplanting of Department of Defense-affiliated 
     families from Department child development centers and 
     actions taken by the Secretary to accommodate those families 
     and address the hardships faced by those families.
       (2) Elements.--The report required by paragraph (1) shall 
     include the following:
       (A) The number of Department of Defense-affiliated families 
     and dependents supplanted from Department child development 
     centers on or after January 1, 2022, and before the date of 
     the report.
       (B) The duty location of those families, including the 
     number of such families and dependents supplanted at each 
     location.
       (C) For each location in which more than five such families 
     have been supplanted during the period described in 
     subparagraph (A), a description of actions taken by the 
     Department--
       (i) to increase the availability of child care at the 
     location's child development center; and
       (ii) to assist those families secure suitable child care 
     during applicable duty hours.
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