To appropriate an additional $58,000,000 for Defense Health Program for additional mental health and related personnel, an additional $10,000,000 for operation and maintenance for each of the military departments for improved physical disability evaluations of members of the Armed Forces, and an additional $15,000,000 for Defense Health Program for women's mental health services.

1. Adds SEC. 1316. ADDITIONAL AMOUNT FOR DEFENSE HEALTH PROGRAM FOR ADDITIONAL MENTAL HEALTH AND RELATED PERSONNEL at the end of chapter 3 of title I

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   Sec. 1320. There is appropriated to the Secretary of Defense such sums as may be necessary to implement the recommendations of the Army Inspector General with regard to trained military attorneys dedicated to representing soldiers who are pursuing claims before physical evaluation boards and earlier in the Army disability evaluation system process.

   Inserted: SEC. 1316. ADDITIONAL AMOUNT FOR DEFENSE HEALTH PROGRAM FOR ADDITIONAL MENTAL HEALTH AND RELATED PERSONNEL.

   Inserted: The amount appropriated or otherwise made available by this chapter under the heading "Defense Health Program" is hereby increased by $58,000,000, with the amount of the increase to be available for additional caseworkers at military medical treatment facilities and other military facilities housing patients to participate in, enhance, and assist the Physical Disability Evaluation System (PDES) process, and for additional mental health and mental crisis counselors at military medical treatment facilities and other military facilities housing patients for services for members of the Armed Forces and their families.

   Inserted: SEC. 1317. ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS FOR OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE FOR THE MILITARY DEPARTMENTS FOR IMPROVED PHYSICAL DISABILITY EVALUATIONS OF MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES.

   Inserted: (a) Additional Amount for Operation and Maintenance, Army.--The amount appropriated or otherwise made available by this chapter under the heading "Operation and Maintenance, Army" is hereby increased by $10,000,000, with the amount of the increase to be available in accordance with subsection (d).

   Inserted: (b) Additional Amounts for Operation and Maintenance for Department of the Navy.--The aggregate amount appropriated or otherwise made available by this chapter under the headings "Operation and Maintenance, Navy" and "Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps" is hereby increased by $10,000,000, with the amount of the increase to be available in accordance with subsection (d).

   Inserted: (c) Additional Amount for Operation and Maintenance, Air Force.--The amount appropriated or otherwise made available by this _chapter under the heading "Operation and Maintenance, Air Force" is hereby increased by $10,000,000, with the amount of the increase to be available in accordance with subsection (d).

   Inserted: (d) Internet Access to Physical Disability Evaluations of Members of the Armed Forces.--

   Inserted: (1) In general.--Each Secretary of a military department shall, utilizing amounts appropriated by the applicable subsection of this section, develop and implement an Internet website to permit members of the Armed Forces who are subject to the Physical Disability Evaluation system of such military department to participate in such system through the Internet.

   Inserted: (2) Elements.--Each Internet website under paragraph (1) shall include the following:

   Inserted: (A) The availability of any forms required for the utilization of the physical disability evaluation system concerned by members of the Armed Forces who are subject to such system.

   Inserted: (B) Secure mechanisms for the submission of forms described in subparagraph (A) by members of the Armed Forces described in that subparagraph, and for the tracking by such members of the acceptance and review of any forms so submitted.

   Inserted: (C) Secure mechanisms for advising members of the Armed Forces described in subparagraph (A) of any additional information, forms, or other items that are required for the acceptance and review of any forms so submitted.

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   Inserted: (D) The continuous availability of assistance for members of the Armed Forces described in subparagraph (A), including assistance through the caseworkers assigned to such members, in submitting and tracking forms, including assistance in obtaining information, forms, or other items described by subparagraph (C).

   Inserted: SEC. 1318. ADDITIONAL AMOUNT FOR DEFENSE HEALTH PROGRAM FOR WOMEN'S MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES.

   Inserted: The amount appropriated or otherwise made available by this chapter under the heading "Defense Health Program" is hereby increased by $15,000,000, with the amount of the increase to be available for the development and implementation of a women's mental health treatment program for women members of the Armed Forces to help screen and treat women members of the Armed Forces, including services and treatment for women who have experienced post-traumatic stress disorder and services and treatment for women who have experienced sexual assault or abuse, which services shall include the hiring and training of sexual abuse crisis counselors for members of the Armed Forces who have experienced sexual abuse or assault.

   Inserted: SEC. 1319. STUDY ON MENTAL HEALTH AND READJUSTMENT NEEDS OF MEMBERS AND FORMER MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES WHO DEPLOYED IN OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM AND OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM AND THEIR FAMILIES.

   Inserted: (a) In General.--Using amounts appropriated or otherwise made available by this chapter under the heading "Defense Health Program", the Secretary of Defense shall, in consultation with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences for a study on the mental health and readjustment needs of members and former members of the Armed Forces who deployed in Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom and their families as a result of such deployment.

   Inserted: (b) Phases.--The study required under subsection (a) shall consist of two phases:

   Inserted: (1) A preliminary phase, to be completed not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, to determine the parameters of the final phase of the study under paragraph (2).

   Inserted: (2) A second phase, to be completed not later than two years after the date of the enactment of this Act, to carry out a comprehensive assessment, in accordance with the parameters identified under paragraph (1), of the mental health and readjustment needs of members and former members of the Armed Forces who deployed in Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom and their families as a result of such deployment.

   Inserted: (c) Reports.--The Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress, and make available to the public, a comprehensive report on each phase of the study required under subsection (a) not later than 30 days after the date of the completion of such phase of the study.

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   At the end of chapter 3 of title I, add the following:

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