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(1) may be used only for wildfire suppression 
purposes, including search and rescue or emergency 
operations pertaining to wildfires; 
(2) may not be flown outside of, or otherwise re-
moved from, the United States unless dispatched by 
the National Interagency Fire Center in support of 
an international agreement to assist in wildfire sup-
pression efforts or for other disaster-related response 
purposes approved by the Governor of California in 
writing in advance; and 
(3) may not be sold by the Governor of Cali-
fornia after transfer. 
(c) CALCULATION OF INITIAL SPARES.—For purposes 
of subsection (a)(1)(B), initial spares shall be calculated 
based on shelf stock support for 7 HC–130H aircraft each 
flying 400 hours each year. 
(d) TRANSFER OF RESIDUAL KITS AND PARTS HELD 
BY AIR FORCE.—The Secretary of the Air Force may trans-
fer to the State of California, without reimbursement, any 
residual kits and parts held by the Secretary of the Air 
Force that were procured in anticipation of the transfer of 
the aircraft specified in subsection (a)(2). 
(e) REPEAL OF PRIOR PROVISIONS OF LAW RELATING 
TO TRANSFER.—The following provisions of law are re-
pealed: 
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(1) Subsections (a), (c), (d), and (f) of section 
1098 of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 2014 (Public Law 113–66; 127 Stat. 
881), as amended by subsections (a), (b), (c), and (d) 
of section 1083 of the John S. McCain National De-
fense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (Public 
Law 115–232; 132 Stat. 1989). 
(2) Subsections (e) and (f) of section 1083 of the 
John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act 
for Fiscal Year 2019 (Public Law 115–232; 132 Stat. 
1989). 
SEC. 1855. RESTRICTIVE HOUSING REFORM. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) Restrictive housing takes many forms, and 
the experience in segregation can vary considerably 
depending on certain external factors, such as the 
length of stay, conditions of confinement, and degree 
of social isolation, as well as factors specific to each 
confined person, such as age and psychological resil-
iency. 
(2) Confined individuals located in restrictive 
housing broadly express severe psychological disturb-
ances with lasting detrimental consequences as a re-
sult of their experience in security housing units. The 
Stanford Lab’s interviews revealed a range of com-
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mon impairments and adverse consequences associ-
ated with long-term, indefinite incarceration. 
(3) The majority of confined members endorsed 
feeling mood symptoms consistent with the Diagnostic 
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM 5) 
diagnosis of Major Depressive Disorder, including de-
pressed 
mood, 
hopelessness, 
anger, 
irritability, 
anhedonia, anger, fatigue, feelings of guilt, loss of ap-
petite, and insomnia. 
(4) Nearly all members also endorsed a sense of 
anxiety symptoms characteristic of DSM 5 diagnoses 
of panic disorder, traumatic stress disorders, or obses-
sive-compulsive disorders, such as nervousness, worry, 
increased heart rate and respiration, sweating, muscle 
tension, hyperarousal, paranoia, nightmares, intru-
sive thoughts, and fear of losing control. 
(5) Psychiatric symptoms and diminished capac-
ity for socialization continue to cause psychological 
suffering and problems with social function for most 
of the men now in general population. 
(6) Confined members cited emotional numbing 
and desensitization as some of the most common re-
sponses to living in SHU. 
(7) This sense of emotional suppression and 
dysregulation continues to be problematic for inmates 
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following the transition to the general population. 
Class members also reported significant alterations in 
cognition and perception. 
(8) Problems with attention, concentration, and 
memory were common, and described as persistent 
and worsening. 
(9) Some of the most pronounced and enduring 
effects of long-term isolation appeared to have resulted 
from relational estrangement and social isolation; in-
mates frequently reported losing, over time, the moti-
vation to seek social connection. 
(b) LIMITATIONS ON CONFINEMENT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Inmates shall be housed in the 
least restrictive setting necessary to ensure their own 
safety, as well as the safety of staff, other inmates, 
and the public. 
(2) REASONING.—The head of a military correc-
tional facility shall clearly articulate each specific 
reason for an inmate’s placement and retention in re-
strictive housing. Each such reason shall be supported 
by objective evidence that such placement and reten-
tion is necessary— 
(A) for prison safety or order; 
(B) to prevent gang influence; 
(C) for inmate or staff protection; and 
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(D) such other penological purpose as the 
head of such facility may determine is appro-
priate. 
(3) PENOLOGICAL
PURPOSE.—Restrictive hous-
ing may only be used to eliminate or mitigate a spe-
cific facility threat such as a fight between inmates 
or the threat of imminent danger to inmates or staff. 
(4) LIMITATION.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Inmates shall remain in 
restrictive housing for no longer than necessary 
to address each specific reason for such place-
ment. 
(B) PUNISHMENT.—Inmates may not be 
placed in restrictive housing— 
(i) as a form of punishment or deter-
rence; 
(ii) for low-level offenses that do not 
involve physical violence to staff or inmates; 
or 
(iii) for more than 5 days as a part of 
a routine investigation or more than 15 
days as part of a non-routine investigation, 
as determined by the Secretary of Defense, 
absent 
documented 
extenuating 
cir-
cumstances. 
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