Title: Base Responders’ Essential Needs and Dining Access Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Base Responders’ Essential Needs and Dining Access Act or the BRENDA Act
This bill allows a protective services civilian employee (e.g., security guard) at a military installation to purchase food and hygiene items at the installation's commissary store or morale, welfare, and recreation retail facility.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5621 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5621

   To amend title 10, United States Code, to extend certain morale, 
  welfare, and recreation privileges to protective services civilian 
                               employees.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 15, 2020

Mr. Waltz (for himself and Mr. Cisneros) introduced the following bill; 
         which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 10, United States Code, to extend certain morale, 
  welfare, and recreation privileges to protective services civilian 
                               employees.

    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 ``Base Responders' Essential Needs and 
Dining Access Act'' or ``BRENDA Act''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF CERTAIN MORALE, WELFARE, AND RECREATION PRIVILEGES 
              TO PROTECTIVE SERVICES CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 54 of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new section:
``Sec. 1066. Use of commissary stores and MWR facilities: protective 
              services civilian employees
    ``(a) Eligibility of Protective Services Civilian Employees.--An 
individual employed as a protective services civilian employee at a 
military installation shall be permitted to purchase food and hygiene 
items at a commissary store or MWR retail facility located on that 
military installation.
    ``(b) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) The term `MWR retail facility' has the meaning given 
        that term in section 1063 of this title.
            ``(2) The term `protective services civilian employee' 
        means a position in any of the following series (or successor 
        classifications) of the General Schedule:
                    ``(A) Security Administration (GS-0080).
                    ``(B) Fire Protection and Prevention (GS-0081).
                    ``(C) Police (GS-0083).
                    ``(D) Security Guard (GS-0085).
                    ``(E) Emergency Management (GS-0089).''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
chapter 54 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 
end the following new item:

``1066. Use of commissary stores and MWR facilities: protective 
                            services civilian employees.''.
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