# 119-s-2091: Restoring Lethality Act

119-s-2091, Restoring Lethality Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Tuberville, Tommy [R-AL] (R-AL); status introduced (as of 2025-12-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-2091
- Congress: 119
- Title: Restoring Lethality Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-06-17
- Sponsor: Sen. Tuberville, Tommy [R-AL] (R-AL)
- Cosponsors: 0
- Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2025-12-21

## Summary

**Would remove statutory diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) requirements across the Department of Defense.** The bill would rewrite or repeal laws that create DEI officers, training, reporting, selection-board guidance, and leadership pipelines. - Military promotion candidates: The bill deletes DEI-influenced language from promotion and other selection-board statutes, changing how boards are instructed to consider diversity in selections. - DoD leaders and civilian staff: It abolishes the statutory Chief Diversity Officer position and repeals senior DEI advisor roles for the military departments and the Coast Guard. - Training, data, and correspondence: It repeals DEI strategic-plan and reporting requirements, removes disaggregation by gender, race, and ethnicity, replaces human relations training language with the core values honor, excellence, courage, and commitment, and ends pronoun-identification rules in official correspondence.

## Provisions PRIA read

- Change military training and promotions: mixed, low. If enacted, the bill would change military human relations training and selection-board language. It would require training to include ‘‘honor, excellence, courage, and commitment’’ and would remove some DEI-related phrasing from promotion board guidance. All service members who get training or fac…
- End DoD Chief Diversity Officer: mixed, low. If enacted, the bill would remove several statutory DEI offices in the Department of Defense. It would repeal the DoD Chief Diversity Officer, certain diversity-in-leadership statutes, senior DEI advisor roles, and related NDAA provisions. DoD leaders, civilian employees, Coast Guard members, and s…
- Reduce DoD diversity reporting: mixed, low. If enacted, the bill would cut several Department of Defense diversity measurement and reporting rules. It would remove requirements to disaggregate data by gender, race, and ethnicity and delete some enumerated measurement items. DoD staff who make reports would have fewer statutory duties and ove…

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- 119-s-2121: SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act of 2025
- 119-s-1748: Kids Online Safety Act
- 119-s-4983: Harry Reid Immigration Stabilization Act
- 119-s-4328: FLEX Act
- 119-s-3492: Essential Caregivers Act of 2025
- 119-s-292: Educational Choice for Children Act of 2025

## Sources
- [119-s-2091 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/2091)

## Related
- [119-s-2121: SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2121)
- [119-s-1748: Kids Online Safety Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1748)
- [119-s-4983: Harry Reid Immigration Stabilization Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4983)
- [119-s-4328: FLEX Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4328)
- [119-s-3492: Essential Caregivers Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3492)
- [119-s-292: Educational Choice for Children Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-292)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2091 (as of 2025-12-21).