PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS TO CLOSE OR RETURN CERTAIN BASES TO THE HOST NATION.

SEC. 2811. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS TO CLOSE OR RETURN CERTAIN BASES TO THE HOST NATION. No funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act for fiscal year 2020 for the Department of Defense may be obligated or expended to implement any activity that closes or returns to the host nation any existing base under the European Consolidation Initiative, and the Department shall not implement any such activity in fiscal year 2020, until the Secretary of Defense certifies that there is no longer a need for a rotational military presence in the European theater.