{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mcsally.senate.gov/mcsally-delivers-massive-wins-arizona-secures-historic-military-sexual-assault-reform-annual", "McSally Delivers Massive Wins for Arizona, Secures Historic Military Sexual Assault Reform in Annual Defense Bill", "2019-12-10", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "AZ", "Martha McSally", "M001197", "www.mcsally.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "U.S. SENATE  U.S. Senator Martha McSally (R-AZ) delivered massive wins for Arizona military missions and historic sexual assault reforms in the final version of the annual defense bill agreed to by the Senate and House Armed Services Committees.\nThe National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2020 (FY20) funds Arizona's critical military missions, supports Arizona service members and their families, and makes important reforms to the way the military investigates and prosecutes sexual assault.\nI am glad to see all of my key provisions included in the final annual defense bill,McSally said.As a SASC member, I fought for the priorities that matter to Arizonans and our military bases. This bill reaffirms our commitment to the men and women in uniform by providing the highest pay raise in a decade and protecting military families living on base from greedy contractors who fail to ensure safe living conditions.\nWe are investing in Arizona's military missions and in turn increasing our nation's military readiness. This bill provides key funding for the F-35 mission at Luke AFB, and the A-10 and EC-37 Compass Call missions at Davis-Monthan AFB. The Marine Air Corps Station in Yuma will get a new hanger and new quarters for enlisted troops. We also highlight the critical missions at Ft. Huachuca and Camp Navajo that are essential to our national defense.\nThe legislation also takes a historic step towards combating military sexual assault by including 17 of my 18 provisions to improve timeliness and effectiveness of investigations and support to victims,McSally continued.For example, the bill includes my request for all the services to increase the number of personnel investigating sexual assault cases. It also ensures a victim has access to a Special Victim Counsel (SVC) within 72 hours of reporting an assault. These critical provisions are urgent to implement and I appreciate the strong bipartisan support for my initiatives.\"\nMcSally Accomplishments in FY20 NDAA:\nProtecting Critical Missions and Investing at Arizona Installation Communities\nF-35 Training and Barry M. Goldwater Range Modernization:\n \n\tLuke AFB produces 70 percent of the world's F-35 pilots using the Barry M. Goldwater Range. However, it needs modernized threat emitter equipment in order to simulate combat-like training conditions.\n\tMcSally secured an amendment that provides $28.0 million to install these threat emitters and maximize efficiency of Luke's F-35 mission.\n \nMarine Corps Air Station Yuma:\n \n\tMcSally secured funding for two projects at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma.\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tRenovation & Addition to Hanger 95 -- $90.16m\n\t\t\tBachelor Enlisted Quarters 2+2 Replacement -- $99.60m. This barracks is ahead of schedule and much needed for safetypurposes.\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n \nUnmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS):\n \n\tMcSally secured language highlighting Ft. Huachuca's unique attributes for hosting the Army's UAS training mission.\n \nWestern Army Aviation Training Site (WAATS):\n \n\tMcSally secured language highlighted what WAATS can offer to maximize efficiency for allied and partner rotary training.\n \nCamp Navajo:\n \n\tMcSally secured language pressing the Army for answers on ways to partner with the Flagstaff community to utilize Camp Navajo's excess magazine storage.\n \nModernizes and Equips a Worldwide Fighting Force\nA-10:\n \n\tMcSally secured $132 million for the A-10, based at Davis-Monthan AFB, including $100m for the wing replacement program.\n\tThe bill also emphasizes the importance of maintaining critical sustainment and modernization funding through 2030\n \nF-35:\n \n\tThe F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program supports over 8,440 direct and indirect jobs in Arizona with an economic impact of more than $936.9 million statewide.\n\tThis bill includes $5.364 billion for 60 aircraft ($1.1 billion above the president's request) for an additional 12 F-35A aircraft to assist with keeping F-35 training, for which Luke AFB is a major pipeline, at maximum efficiency\n\tAlso includes an additional $156 million to support advanced procurement for 12 additional F-35A in FY21 to maintain momentum for the Joint Strike Fighter program\n \nEC-37B (EC-37 Compass Call Cross-deck):\n \n\tDavis-Monthan: Fully funds the president's request of $114 million for another additional EC-37B Compass Call to keep this critical capability on track. The Compass Call fleet is based at Davis-Monthan AFB.\n \nAH-64 Apache:\n \n\tMesa, Arizona: Increases funding for the AH-64 Apache by $105m for the IIIB new build.\n \nTrusted Supply Chain for Certain Microelectronics:\n \n\tRequires standardized micro-electronics products and services meet trusted supply chain and operational security standards to combat Chinese IP theft and transfer of critical U.S. military technology.\n \nSupporting Troops and their Families\nProtecting Military Families from Hazardous Housing Conditions:\n \n\tMany military families have been subjected to substandard housing and exposure to harmful environmental conditions in on-base housing managed by private contractors. This is simply unacceptable.\n\tMcSally personally fought to ensure the bill includes a host of provisions to get private housing contractors in line and ensure the military chain of command is also accountable. A few of these include: directing DoD to come up with a tenant bill of rights; creating a new dispute resolution mechanism for families (could result in withholding of BAH until an issue is resolved); allows services to withhold incentive pay; more funding for housing office personnel/officials to ensure families have a voice.\n \nExtended Paid Family Leave Policy:\n \n\tThe 2017 National Defense Authorization Act increased the max secondary caregiver leave from 10 to 21 days.\n\tThis policy allows families to take parental leave after the birth or adoption of a new child, so they can make their leave work best for them.\n\tMcSally also secured language that requires a report on the impacts these extended leave policies have had on military recruitment, retention, and morale.\n \nCombatting PFAS Contamination:\n \n\tProhibits DoD from procuring firefighting foam that contains per and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) substances after October 2024.\n \nCivilian Support Network:\n \n\tEstablishes a system by which servicemembers can designate a Civilian Support Network of friends and family members who can choose to be notified about resources and information to help better understand what their servicemember may be going through at any particular time. This program was inspired by Army Sgt. Daniel Somers, a 20-year-old Phoenix veteran who tragically took his own life after two tours in Iraq and 5 frustrating years fighting the Phoenix VA for mental health treatment. On this initiative, McSally worked with Daniel's parents, Howard and Jean Somers, on how DoD can keep families more informed so they can identify warning signs if their service member shows signs of mental or physical fatigue or illness and get them the treatment they need.\n \nCombatting Sexual Assault in the Military\nPrevention and Training:\n \n\tPrioritize research and focus on prevention ofsexualassault.\n\tStandardize and modernize training requirements across services through a comprehensive review of best practices in military justice, victim assistance, promotion of healthy command climates, and ensuring the accused is afforded due process rights.\n\tExtend DACIPAD to continue to study investigation and prosecution ofsexualassaultin the military.\n\tDirect DoD to do a victim experience survey to understand barriers to victim participation in the judicial process and continue to improve the investigation and judicial process forsexualassault.\n \nVictim Support:\n \n\tEnsure access to Special Victim Counsels (SVCs) for victims within 72 hours of reporting an assault.\n\tDirect the DoD to work with DACIPAD to update regulations relating to providing victims additional options for restricted reporting when a report comes from a third party or an inadvertent disclosure.\n\tImprove processes for mandated case-related communications with victims and documenting victim preference about the reporting process, including jurisdictional preference.\n\tEnsure privacy protections for victims utilizing the CATCH program to report serial offenders.\n\tStudy the feasibility of expanding safe to report programs across the military services to make sure that victims won't be inappropriately charged with collateral misconduct offenses when they report anassault.\n \nInvestigation:\n \n\tIncrease capabilities for investigators to meet increasing demand for digital evidence processing and improve the timeliness of investigations.\n\tExamine the current data management system of each service to determine the advisability of a DoD-wide data management system to better share and track information on criminal cases, including normalizing data so that each military service is tracking the same data in the same way to ease data sharing and tracking.\n\tDirect the services to create and report on processes for the immediate collaboration at the start of an investigation by Special Victim Investigation and Prosecution (SVIP) teams in order to streamline efforts.\n\tMandate that the DoD develop a process to ensure and track that protective orders are appropriately shared between military and civilian authorities.\n \nProsecution:\n \n\tModify the Manual for Courts-Martial to add a specific offense for sexual harassment.\n\tDirect the DoD to use data from the Military Justice Review Panel to create non-binding sentencing guidelines to increase transparency for sentencing authorities and eliminate substantial differences in punishment for similar crimes.\n \nOnDecember 3, McSally called out military housing slumlords in aU.S. Committee on Armed Serviceshearing.\nOnJune 27, McSally announced her provisions passed in the Senate NDAA for FY2020.\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "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://www.mcsally.senate.gov/mcsally-delivers-massive-wins-arizona-secures-historic-military-sexual-assault-reform-annual"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7636989466845989, "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"}