[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6048-S6049]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 6440. Mr. WARNER 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. FOOD INSECURITY AMONG MILITARY FAMILIES: DATA 
                   COLLECTION; TRAINING; REPORT.

       (a) Data Collection.--Not later than one year after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act, the Under Secretary of 
     Defense for Personnel and Readiness, acting through the 
     Deputy Assistant Secretary for Military Community and Family 
     Policy, in coordination with the Under Secretary for Food, 
     Nutrition, and Consumer Services of the Department of 
     Agriculture, shall--
       (1) develop a survey, in collaboration with the Department 
     of Agriculture, to determine how many members of the Armed 
     Forces serving on active duty, and dependents of such 
     members, are food insecure;
       (2) issue the survey to such members and dependents;
       (3) collect data from the survey on the use, by such 
     members and dependents, of Federal nutrition assistance 
     programs, including--
       (A) the supplemental nutrition assistance program under the 
     Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.);
       (B) the special supplemental nutrition program for women, 
     infants, and children under section 17 of the Child Nutrition 
     Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786);
       (C) the school lunch program under the Richard B. Russell 
     National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.); and
       (D) the school breakfast program under section 4 of the 
     Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1773); and
       (4) collect data related to the number of such members and 
     dependents who--
       (A) are eligible for the basic needs allowance under 
     section 402b of title 37, United States Code; and
       (B) receive such basic needs allowance;
       (5) develop and carry out a plan to train and designate an 
     individual who will assist members at military installations 
     on how and where to refer such members and their dependents 
     for participation in Federal nutrition assistance programs 
     described in paragraph (3); and
       (6) coordinate efforts of the Department of Defense to 
     address food insecurity and nutrition.
       (b) Report Required.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than one year after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Under 
     Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness shall submit 
     to the appropriate congressional committees a report 
     including the following:
       (A) The number of members of the Armed Forces serving on 
     active duty and their dependents who are food insecure.
       (B) The number of such members and their dependents who use 
     the Federal nutrition assistance programs described in 
     subsection (a)(3).
       (C) The number of such members and their dependents 
     described in subsection (a)(4).
       (D) The status of implementation of the plan under 
     subsection (a)(5).
       (2) Appropriate congressional committees defined.--In this 
     subsection, the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' 
     means--

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       (A) the congressional defense committees;
       (B) the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry 
     of the Senate; and
       (C) the Committee on Agriculture and the Committee on 
     Education and Labor of the House of Representatives.
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