Title: JROTC and ROTC Enhancement Act of 2020
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
JROTC and ROTC Enhancement Act of 2020
This bill expands the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) to include an introduction to service opportunities in military, national, and public service and implement a plan to establish and support not fewer than 6,000 units of the JROTC by September 30, 2031.
The bill also requires the Department of Defense to submit to Congress a report on the effectiveness of the Cyber Institutes and on opportunities to expand them to additional select institutions of higher learning that have a Reserve Officers' Training Corps program.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3869 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3869

To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for the expansion of 
   the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps, to expand the Cyber 
              Institutes Program, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 3, 2020

  Mr. Rounds (for himself and Mrs. Shaheen) introduced the following 
   bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed 
                                Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for the expansion of 
   the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps, to expand the Cyber 
              Institutes Program, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``JROTC and ROTC Enhancement Act of 
2020''.

SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF JUNIOR RESERVE OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS PROGRAM.

    (a) Expansion of JROTC Curriculum.--Section 2031(a)(2) of title 10, 
United States Code, is amended by inserting after ``service to the 
United States'' the following: ``(including an introduction to service 
opportunities in military, national, and public service)''.
    (b) Plan To Increase Number of JROTC Units.--The Secretary of 
Defense shall, in consultation with the Secretaries of the military 
departments, develop and implement a plan to establish and support not 
fewer than 6,000 units of the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps 
by September 30, 2031.

SEC. 3. EXPANSION OF CYBER INSTITUTES PROGRAM.

    Section 1640 of the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (Public Law 115-232; 132 Stat. 2310; 10 U.S.C. 
2200 note) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(g) Report to Congress.--Not later than September 30, 2021, the 
Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services 
of the Senate and the House of Representatives a report on the 
effectiveness of the Cyber Institutes and on opportunities to expand 
the Cyber Institutes to additional select institutions of higher 
learning that have a Reserve Officers' Training Corps program.
    ``(h) Availability of Funds for Expansion.--Amounts authorized to 
be appropriated for the Department of Defense and available for the 
Cyber Institutes program under this section shall be available for the 
expansion of the program in accordance with the report required by 
subsection (g) after September 30, 2021.''.
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