Title: Rural Servicemembers Support Act of 2019
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Rural Servicemembers Support Act of 2019
This bill directs the Government Accountability Office to study the designation of Department of Defense installations as remote or isolated.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1512 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1512

 To require the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a 
     study on the designation by the Secretary of Defense and the 
    Secretaries of the military departments of installations of the 
  Department of Defense as ``remote'' or ``isolated'', and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 16, 2019

 Ms. Cortez Masto introduced the following bill; which was read twice 
            and referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a 
     study on the designation by the Secretary of Defense and the 
    Secretaries of the military departments of installations of the 
  Department of Defense as ``remote'' or ``isolated'', 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 ``Rural Servicemembers Support Act of 
2019''.

SEC. 2. STUDY ON INSTALLATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE THAT ARE 
              DESIGNATED AS REMOTE OR ISOLATED.

    (a) In General.--The Comptroller General of the United States shall 
conduct a study on the designation by the Secretary of Defense and the 
Secretaries of the military departments of installations of the 
Department of Defense as ``remote'' or ``isolated''.
    (b) Elements of Study.--The study conducted under subsection (a) 
shall--
            (1) identify--
                    (A) the various definitions within the Department 
                of Defense of remote and isolated installations;
                    (B) who establishes those definitions; and
                    (C) the criteria to meet those definitions;
            (2) assess the uses by the Department of the remote or 
        isolated designation for an installation; and
            (3) review--
                    (A) the range of services available at remote 
                installations;
                    (B) how those services differ between the military 
                departments; and
                    (C) the process used to determine whether those 
                services meet the needs of members of the Armed Forces 
                at those installations.
    (c) Report.--Not later than January 30, 2020, the Comptroller 
General shall submit to Congress, at a minimum, the initial findings 
for the study conducted under subsection (a).
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