S 1156
116th Congress
Senate
Armed Forces and National Security
Air quality
Atmospheric science and weather
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Congressional oversight
Emergency planning and evacuation
Fires
Floods and storm protection
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Military facilities and property
Military readiness
National Guard and reserves
Natural disasters
READINESS Act of 2019
Everywhere this bill has been
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Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 11, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
Apr 11, 2019
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Requiring Every American Defense Installation to Nullify Environmental Stresses for Security Act of 2019 or the READINESS Act of 2019
This bill requires the Department of Defense to ensure the readiness of the Armed Forces through a program of military installation resilience plans. These plans, which may include state-owned National Guard facilities, shall contain the following elements, as appropriate:
- an assessment of current risks and threats, such as changes in environmental conditions, and future risks and threats—based upon authoritative projections of changing environmental conditions—to the resilience of a major installation considered in a master plan during a 50-year lifespan;
- a description of vulnerable assets or infrastructure located on the installation as well as critical community infrastructure and resources outside of the installation; and
- a description of measures to mitigate threats to the resilience of an installation and its mission, associated costs of the measures, and agreements that will aid the resilience of the installation and vulnerable community infrastructure and resources.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
Committees of jurisdiction
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