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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 2058 

To amend title 10, United States Code, to improve policy and data collection 

in connection with personnel tempo of the Armed Forces and the United 

States Special Operations Command, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JULY 9, 2019 

Mr. ROUNDS introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 

to the Committee on Armed Services 

A BILL 

To amend title 10, United States Code, to improve policy 

and data collection in connection with personnel tempo 

of the Armed Forces and the United States Special Operations Command, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Service Member and 

5 Family Operational Tempo Relief Act of 2019’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. PERSONNEL TEMPO OF THE ARMED FORCES AND 

2 THE UNITED STATES SPECIAL OPERATIONS 

3 COMMAND DURING PERIODS OF INAPPLICA4 BILITY OF HIGH-DEPLOYMENT LIMITATIONS. 

5 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 991(d) of title 10, United 

6 States Code, is amended— 

7 (1) by inserting ‘‘(1)’’ before ‘‘The Secretary’’; 

8 and 

9 (2) by adding at the end the following new 

10 paragraph: 

11 ‘‘(2)(A) Whenever a waiver is in effect under para12 graph (1), the member or group of members covered by 

13 the waiver shall be subject to specific and measurable de14 ployment thresholds established and maintained for pur15 poses of this subsection. 

16 ‘‘(B) Thresholds under this paragraph may be appli17 cable— 

18 ‘‘(i) uniformly, Department of Defense-wide; or 

19 ‘‘(ii) separately, with respect to each armed 

20 force and the United States Special Operations 

21 Command. 

22 ‘‘(C) If thresholds under this paragraph are applica23 ble Department-wide, such thresholds shall be established 

24 and maintained by the Under Secretary of Defense for 

25 Personnel and Readiness. If such thresholds are applicable 

26 only to a separate armed force or the Under States Special 


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1 Operations Command, such thresholds shall be established 

2 and maintained by the Secretary of the Army, the Sec3 retary of the Navy (other than with respect to the Marine 

4 Corps), the Secretary of the Air Force, the Commandant 

5 of the Marine Corps (with respect to the Marine Corps), 

6 and the Commander of the United States Special Oper7 ations Command, as applicable. 

8 ‘‘(D) In undertaking recordkeeping for purposes of 

9 subsection (c), the Under Secretary shall, in conjunction 

10 with the other officials and officers referred to in subpara11 graph (C), collect complete and reliable personnel tempo 

12 data of members described in subparagraph (A) in order 

13 to ensure that the Department, the armed forces, and the 

14 United States Special Operations Command fully and 

15 completely monitor personnel tempo under a waiver under 

16 paragraph (1) and its impact on the armed forces.’’. 

17 (b) DEADLINE FOR IMPLEMENTATION.—Paragraph 

18 (2) of section 991(d) of title 10, United States Code, as 

19 added by subsection (a), shall be fully implemented by not 

20 later than March 1, 2020. 

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