1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Defense Language Improvement Act” or the “DLI Act”.
Defense Language Improvement Act
A BILL
To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize the Defense Language Institute to award a Bachelor of Arts degree in a foreign language, and for other purposes.
2. Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center
Authority To award bachelor’s degrees— Section 2168 of title 10, United States Code, is amended—
in the section heading, by striking “Associate” and inserting “Associate or Bachelor”; and
by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
“(a) Subject to subsection (b), the Commandant of the Defense Language Institute may confer—
“(1) an Associate of Arts degree in a foreign language upon any graduate of the Foreign Language Center of the Institute who fulfills the requirements for that degree; or
“(2) a Bachelor of Arts degree in a foreign language upon any graduate of the Foreign Language Center of the Institute who fulfills the requirements for that degree.”
Clerical amendment— The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 108 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by striking the item relating to section 2168 and inserting the following new item: