{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://stansbury.house.gov/media/press-releases/congresswoman-stansbury-votes-deliver-wins-new-mexicos-service-members-bases", "Congresswoman Stansbury Votes to Deliver Wins for New Mexico\u2019s Service Members, Bases, and Sustainability in Defense Spending Bill", "2021-12-08", "2021", "2021-12", "Democrat", "House", "NM", "Melanie A. Stansbury", "S001218", "stansbury.house.gov", "stansbury", "https://stansbury.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "December 8, 2021\n\nBill authorizes a pay raise for military service members, addresses sexual assault in the military, and requires Department of Defense to increase sustainability measures\n\nWASHINGTON\u2014Last night, U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury (N.M.-01) voted to deliver critical funding for Kirtland Air Force Base and New Mexico\u2019s economy, the well-being of our military service members and their families, and the sustainability of military installations. The defense bill now heads to the Senate before final passage and the President\u2019s desk.\n\nThe National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2022 (NDAA) provides service members with a 2.7% pay raise and creates a new allowance to address food, housing, and other basic needs for service members and their families.\n\nThe bill also implements reforms to prevent and protect service members from sexual assault and sexual harassment by removing commanders from decisions to prosecute. These provisions in the bill are derived from the Vanessa Guill\u00e9n Military Justice Improvement and Increasing Prevention Act of 2021, the first bill Rep. Stansbury signed on to as a cosponsor after taking office in June this year.\n\n\u201cLast week I visited Kirtland Air Force Base and saw NDAA funding in action. Tonight, we voted to increase military pay, address vital needs of our service members and their families, and fund programs important to our economy and national security,\u201d said Rep. Stansbury. \u201cNew Mexicans have a long and proud history of answering the call to serve, and I am proud to be able to represent our communities and to help deliver key funding for our bases and National Labs.\u201d\n\nKey Provisions of the FY2022 National Defense Authorization Act include:\n\nInvestments in New Mexico\u2019s Military Installations\n\nSandia National Laboratories\n\nInvests over $13.8 million in new project funding and over $4.5 million in environmental cleanup .\n\nKirtland Air Force Base\n\nInvests $8.6 million in funding to construct a replacement for an environmental health facility.\n\nInvests over $5.2 million to establish a new dedicated facility for the Space Rapid Capabilities Office.\n\nInvests $5.6 million to construct a new security gate on Wyoming Blvd.\n\nAir Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)\n\nDirects the Secretary of the Air Force to carry out an assessment of Space Force capabilities specific to space access and space operations.\n\nVital quality-of-life improvements for New Mexico servicemembers and their families\n\nRaises military basic pay by 2.7%.\n\nInvests in a first-of-its-kind basic needs allowance for military families\n\nImproves health care, including mental health care and suicide prevention.\n\nIncreases bereavement and parental leave for service members.\n\nIncreases funding for school districts educating students from military families, including funding that will directly benefit Albuquerque Public Schools and the Bernalillo Municipal School District.\n\nSustainability and Climate Resilience Investments\n\nRequires the Department of Defense to ensure that 10 percent of its major military installations achieve energy, water, and waste net-zero by 2035.\n\nRequires the Department of Defense to incorporate consideration of the risks of extreme weather into certain existing Department of Defense strategies and planning documents.\n\nRequires the Department to institute a process for ensuring accurate and effective analytical tools are used to project life-cycle costs and performance potential of energy resilience measures.\n\nRequires the Department of Defense to establish a demonstration initiative focused on the development of long duration energy storage technologies.\n\nRequires the Secretary of Defense to conduct a mission impact assessment on climate resilience and the impacts of extreme weather.\n\nRequires the Department of Defense to set energy and water efficiency targets using industry best practices for data centers.\n\nReforms to enhance accountability for sexual assault and counter the threat of domestic extremism in the military\n\nSexual Assault\n\nRemoves the Commander from decisions related to the prosecution of covered crimes.\n\nCreates an Office of the Special Trial Counsel within each Service and ensuring their independence by requiring they directly report to the Service Secretary.\n\nCriminalizes sexual harassment under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. All claims of sexual harassment will be required to be investigated by an independent investigator outside the chain of command.\n\nEstablishes judge-alone sentencing and sentencing parameters to increase fairness across the system.\n\nIncreases the notification for Survivors of Sexual Assault by directing the Services to notify survivors of sexual assault about the outcomes of any administrative action taken against their perpetrator.\n\nDomestic Extremism\n\nRequires DoD to submit a report on including a criminal article in the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) to address violent extremism\n\nDirects the Secretary of Defense to provide a briefing on all studies regarding efforts of extremist organizations to recruit members of the armed forces, and a strategy to develop and implement training to prevent such recruitment efforts.\n\nPFAS\n\nAdds $517 million above the President\u2019s Budget Request for clean-up of military communities impacted by PFAS contamination.\n\nAdds $100 million for environmental remediation.\n\nEstablishes a 2-year deadline for completion of PFAS testing at Department of Defense and National Guard installations.\n\nRequires the Department of Defense to report on the status of clean-up at 50 PFAS sites across the country.\n\nPlaces a temporary moratorium on the incineration of fire-fighting foam containing PFAS and materials contaminated by PFAS until The Secretary of Defense implements EPA interim guidance.\n\nCreates a Department of Defense PFAS task force to unify the response to PFAS contamination across the military departments.\n\nRequires the Department of Defense to publish and make publicly available results of drinking and ground water testing for PFAS conducted on or near military installations, formerly used defense sites, and National Guard sites.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:37:48Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://stansbury.house.gov/media/press-releases/congresswoman-stansbury-votes-deliver-wins-new-mexicos-service-members-bases"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7049830164760351, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}