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Code · BILL · 115th Congress · H.R. 5515 (Enrolled) — To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military c... · Sec. 323

Sec. 323. Limitation on length of overseas forward deployment of naval vessels

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Chapter 633 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section: The Secretary of the Navy shall ensure that no naval vessel specified in subsection
(b)that is listed in the Naval Vessel Register is forward deployed overseas for a period in excess of ten years. At the end of a period of overseas forward deployment, the vessel shall be assigned a homeport in the United States. A naval vessel specified in this subsection is any of the following: Aircraft carrier. Amphibious ship. Cruiser. Destroyer. Frigate. Littoral Combat Ship. The Secretary of the Navy may waive the limitation under subsection
(a)with respect to a naval vessel if the Secretary submits to the congressional defense committees notice in writing of— the waiver of such limitation with respect to the vessel; the date on which the period of overseas forward deployment of the vessel is expected to end; and the factors used by the Secretary to determine that a longer period of deployment would promote the national defense or be in the public interest. . The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by adding at the end the following new section: 7320. Limitation on length of overseas forward deployment of naval vessels. . In the case of any naval vessel that has been forward deployed overseas for a period in excess of ten years as of the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Navy shall ensure that such vessel is assigned a homeport in the United States by not later than three years after the date of the enactment of this Act. Not later than October 1, 2020, the Secretary of the Navy shall provide to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives a briefing on the plan of the Secretary for the rotation of forward deployed naval vessels.
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