SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING INFRASTRUCTURE AND INSTALLATION REQUIREMENTS FOR TRANSFER OF UNITS AND PERSONNEL FROM CLOSED AND REALIGNED MILITARY INSTALLATIONS TO RECEIVING LOCATIONS.

SEC. 2836. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING INFRASTRUCTURE AND INSTALLATION REQUIREMENTS FOR TRANSFER OF UNITS AND PERSONNEL FROM CLOSED AND REALIGNED MILITARY INSTALLATIONS TO RECEIVING LOCATIONS.(a) Findings.—Congress finds the following:(1) The decisions of the 2005 round of base closures and realignments and the Integrated Global Presence and Basing Strategy will result in the permanent change of station and relocation of hundreds of thousands of members of the Armed Forces and their families over the next six years. (2) Critical quality-of-life concerns for military families related to the infrastructure and installation requirements to support the restructuring of the Armed Forces include adequate housing and continued access to quality education facilities and child care, health care, and other services.(3) By ensuring that facilities and infrastructure are maintained at closing installations pending the actual change of station and relocation of members of the Armed Forces and their families and that adequate permanent facilities and infrastructure await them at the receiving installations, disruptions to unit operational effectiveness will be minimized and the quality of life of military families will be protected. (b) Sense of Congress.—It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Defense should seek to ensure that the permanent facilities and infrastructure necessary to support the mission of the Armed Forces and the quality-of-life needs of members of the Armed Forces and their families are ready for use at receiving locations before units are transferred to such locations as a result of the 2005 round of base closures and realignments and the Integrated Global Presence and Basing Strategy.