; (2) the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps is supported by all the Armed Forces, and there are Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps units in all 50 States, 4 United States territories, and the District of Columbia; (3) the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps consistently improves student outcomes across a wide variety of academic and nonacademic data points, including grade point average, high school graduation and college acceptance rates, standardized test scores, drop-out rates, discipline problems, and leadership skills; (4) the Department of Defense should view the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps as a unique program to help close the divide between the military and the greater civilian community in the United States; (5) given the increased funding and more flexible policy authorized in the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 ( Public Law 115–232 ), the Department should take every possible action to increase the number of Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps units at schools around the United States; and (6) the desired number of Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps units should be at least 3,700 in order to relieve a significant backlog in requests to establish such units. VI Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits A Pay and Allowances 601. Expansion of eligibility for exceptional transitional compensation for dependents to dependents of current members Section 1059(m) of title 10, United States Code, is amended— (1) in the subsection heading, by inserting members or after dependents of ; (2) by inserting member or before former member each place it appears; (3) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (4); and (4) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following new paragraph (3): (3) For purposes of the provision of benefits under this section pursuant to this subsection, a member shall be considered separated from active duty upon the earliest of— (A) the date an administrative separation is initiated by a commander of the member