Title: Service Member and Family Operational Tempo Relief Act of 2019
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Service Member and Family Operational Tempo Relief Act of 2019
This bill requires the Department of Defense and each military department to follow specific and measurable deployment thresholds for members of the Armed Forces when exceeding deployment time limits due to U.S. national security interests.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2058 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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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.


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                   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

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                                 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.

    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 ``Service Member and Family 
Operational Tempo Relief Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. PERSONNEL TEMPO OF THE ARMED FORCES AND THE UNITED STATES 
              SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND DURING PERIODS OF 
              INAPPLICABILITY OF HIGH-DEPLOYMENT LIMITATIONS.

    (a) In General.--Section 991(d) of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(1)'' before ``The Secretary''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(2)(A) Whenever a waiver is in effect under paragraph (1), the 
member or group of members covered by the waiver shall be subject to 
specific and measurable deployment thresholds established and 
maintained for purposes of this subsection.
    ``(B) Thresholds under this paragraph may be applicable--
            ``(i) uniformly, Department of Defense-wide; or
            ``(ii) separately, with respect to each armed force and the 
        United States Special Operations Command.
    ``(C) If thresholds under this paragraph are applicable Department-
wide, such thresholds shall be established and maintained by the Under 
Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness. If such thresholds 
are applicable only to a separate armed force or the Under States 
Special Operations Command, such thresholds shall be established and 
maintained by the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy 
(other than with respect to the Marine Corps), the Secretary of the Air 
Force, the Commandant of the Marine Corps (with respect to the Marine 
Corps), and the Commander of the United States Special Operations 
Command, as applicable.
    ``(D) In undertaking recordkeeping for purposes of subsection (c), 
the Under Secretary shall, in conjunction with the other officials and 
officers referred to in subparagraph (C), collect complete and reliable 
personnel tempo data of members described in subparagraph (A) in order 
to ensure that the Department, the armed forces, and the United States 
Special Operations Command fully and completely monitor personnel tempo 
under a waiver under paragraph (1) and its impact on the armed 
forces.''.
    (b) Deadline for Implementation.--Paragraph (2) of section 991(d) 
of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), shall be 
fully implemented by not later than March 1, 2020.
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