[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S4580]
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  SA 2258. Mrs. BLACKBURN submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed by her to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for 
fiscal year 2025 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 appropriate place in title X, insert the following:

     SEC. __. PROHIBITION AND STUDY RELATING TO MILITARY FABRIC 
                   LABELING.

       (a) Prohibition.--The Secretary of Defense shall not 
     finalize the draft detail specification MIL-DTL-32075B or 
     otherwise revise, supplement, or bypass detail specification 
     MIL-DTL-32075A, ``Label: For Clothing, Equipage, and Tentage, 
     (General Use)''.
       (b) Study and Report.--
       (1) Study.--The Secretary of Defense shall complete a study 
     of the military fabric labeling industry that--
       (A) examines the rationale for the draft detail 
     specification MIL-DTL-32075B;
       (B) analyzes the anticipated effects of the new fabric 
     label category under that draft detail specification on--
       (i) the safety of members of the Armed Forces; and
       (ii) small business label manufacturers; and
       (C) evaluates--
       (i) how eliminating performance standards would expose 
     members of the Armed Forces to safety hazards and impair 
     recalls issued by the Department of Defense;
       (ii) the impact of the draft detail specification on small 
     business manufacturers of type VI labels, including through 
     interviews with such manufacturers; and
       (iii) the number and appropriateness of engineering change 
     requests or other waivers that evade performance requirements 
     for type VI labels.
       (2) Report.--Not later than one year after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit 
     to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate a report on 
     the findings of the study.
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