S.Amdt. 4865

SA 4865. Mrs. CLINTON submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by her to the bill H.R. 5631, making appropriations for the Department
of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, and for other
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of title VIII, add the following:
Sec. 8109. (a) Availability of Operation and Maintenance,
Army, Funds for Certain Grants.--Of the amount appropriated
or otherwise made available by title II under the heading
``Operation and Maintenance, Army'', up to $4,000,000 may be
available for grants described in subsection (c).
(b) Availability of Operation and Maintenance, Marine
Corps, Funds for Certain Grants.--Of the amount appropriated
or otherwise made available by title II under the heading
``Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps'', up to $1,000,000
may be available for grants described in subsection (c).
(c) Covered Grants.--Grants described in this subsection
are grants to eligible entities to carry out demonstration
projects to assess the feasibility and advisability of
utilizing community-based settings for the provision of
assistance to members of the National Guard and Reserve who
serve in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring
Freedom and their families on their return from deployment,
including--
(1) services to improve the reuniting of such members of
the National Guard and Reserve and their families;
(2) education to increase awareness of the physical and
mental health conditions that members of the National Guard
and Reserve can and may experience on their return from such
deployment, including education on--
(A) Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and traumatic
brain injury (TBI); and
(B) mechanisms for the referral of such members of the
National Guard and Reserve for medical and mental health
screening and care when necessary; and
(3) education to increase awareness of the physical and
mental health conditions that family members of such members
of the National Guard and Reserve can and may experience on
the return of such members from such deployment, including
education on--
(A) depression, anxiety, and relationship problems; and
(B) mechanisms for medical and mental health screening and
care when appropriate.
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