Title: Climate Security Jobs Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Climate Security Jobs Act
This bill provides that for FY2022 and the fiscal years thereafter, the baseline personnel limitations for certain Department of Defense offices must not apply to personnel deemed as necessary to accommodate increases in workload or modify the type of personnel required to accomplish specified work related to military resilience to environmental risks.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5277 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5277

To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide relief of limitations 
  on military personnel addressing environmental risks, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 17, 2021

  Mr. Neguse 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 provide relief of limitations 
  on military personnel addressing environmental risks, 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 ``Climate Security Jobs Act''.

SEC. 2. EXCEPTION TO LIMITATIONS ON PERSONNEL.

    For fiscal year 2022 and fiscal years thereafter, the baseline 
personnel limitations in sections 143, 194, 7014, 8014, and 9014 of 
title 10, United States Code, shall not apply to personnel deemed by 
the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of the Military Department 
concerned as necessary to accommodate increases in workload or modify 
the type of personnel required to accomplish work to develop, 
administer, or oversee plans, programs or activities related to one or 
more of the following:
            (1) Maintaining or enhancing military installation 
        resilience, as defined in section 101(e)(8) of this title.
            (2) Addressing the vulnerabilities of the defense 
        industrial base and related supply chains to the impacts of 
        extreme weather events, or from anticipated or unanticipated 
        changes in environmental conditions.
            (3) Monitoring, addressing, and remedying per- and 
        polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) contamination that impacts military 
        installations and operations.
            (4) Enhancing the water and energy resilience and assurance 
        of military installations within the United States and abroad.
            (5) Reducing the net greenhouse gas emissions of the 
        Department of Defense in ways that protect and enhance the 
        operational capacity of the Department of Defense.
            (6) Ensuring the full and timely implementation of and 
        compliance with requirements enacted by Congress related to one 
        or more of the matters in paragraphs (1) through (5).
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