To require the Department of Defense to improve access to mental health care for family members of members of the National Guard and Reserve who are deployed overseas.
What it does: Rewrites the text the amendment would insert
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)What it changes
1 change to S. 1390
Rewrites the text the amendment would insert
Rewrites the amendmentIn place of the text the amendment being amended would insertInserted: SEC. 557. IMPROVED ACCESS TO MENTAL HEALTH CARE FOR FAMILY MEMBERS OF MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVE WHO ARE DEPLOYED OVERSEAS.
Inserted: (a) Initiative to Increase Access to Mental Health Care.--
Inserted: (1) In general.--The Secretary of Defense shall develop and implement a plan to expand existing initiatives of the Department of Defense to increase access to mental health care for family members of members of the National Guard and Reserve deployed overseas during the periods of mobilization, deployment, and demobilization of such members of the National Guard and Reserve.
Inserted: (2) Elements.--The plan required by paragraph (1) shall include the following:
Inserted: (A) Programs and activities to educate family members of members of the National Guard and Reserve who are deployed overseas on potential mental health challenges connected with such deployment.
Inserted: (B) Programs and activities to provide such family members with complete information on all mental health resources available to such family members through the Department of Defense and otherwise.
Inserted: (C) Efforts to expand counseling activities for such family members in local communities.
Inserted: (b) Reports.--
Inserted: (1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and at such times thereafter as the Secretary of Defense considers appropriate, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a report on this section.
Inserted: (2) Elements.--Each report shall include the following:
Inserted: (A) A current assessment of the extent to which family members of members of the National Guard and Reserve who are deployed overseas have access to, and are utilizing, mental health care available under this section.
Inserted: (B) A current assessment of the quality of mental health care being provided to family members of members of the National Guard and Reserve who are deployed overseas, and an assessment of expanding coverage for mental health care services under the TRICARE program to mental health care services provided at facilities currently outside the network of the TRICARE program.
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Inserted: (C) Such recommendations for legislative or administration action as the Secretary considers appropriate in order to further assure full access to mental health care by family members of members of the National Guard and Reserve who are deployed overseas during the mobilization, deployment, and demobilization of such members of the National Guard and Reserve.
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SA 1799. Ms. KLOBUCHAR proposed an amendment to the bill S. 1390, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2010 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; as follows:
In lieu of the matter proposed to be inserted, insert the following:
SEC. 557. IMPROVED ACCESS TO MENTAL HEALTH CARE FOR FAMILY MEMBERS OF MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVE WHO ARE DEPLOYED OVERSEAS.
(a) Initiative to Increase Access to Mental Health Care.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary of Defense shall develop and implement a plan to expand existing initiatives of the Department of Defense to increase access to mental health care for family members of members of the National Guard and Reserve deployed overseas during the periods of mobilization, deployment, and demobilization of such members of the National Guard and Reserve.
(2) Elements.--The plan required by paragraph (1) shall include the following:
(A) Programs and activities to educate family members of members of the National Guard and Reserve who are deployed overseas on potential mental health challenges connected with such deployment.
(B) Programs and activities to provide such family members with complete information on all mental health resources available to such family members through the Department of Defense and otherwise.
(C) Efforts to expand counseling activities for such family members in local communities.
(b) Reports.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and at such times thereafter as the Secretary of Defense considers appropriate, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a report on this section.
(2) Elements.--Each report shall include the following:
(A) A current assessment of the extent to which family members of members of the National Guard and Reserve who are deployed overseas have access to, and are utilizing, mental health care available under this section.
(B) A current assessment of the quality of mental health care being provided to family members of members of the National Guard and Reserve who are deployed overseas, and an assessment of expanding coverage for mental health care services under the TRICARE program to mental health care services provided at facilities currently outside the network of the TRICARE program.
(C) Such recommendations for legislative or administration action as the Secretary considers appropriate in order to further assure full access to mental health care by family members of members of the National Guard and Reserve who are deployed overseas during the mobilization, deployment, and demobilization of such members of the National Guard and Reserve.
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Senate amendment submitted
July 23, 2009
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Senate amendment submitted
July 23, 2009
Senate amendment proposed (on the floor): Amendment SA 1799 proposed by Senator Levin for Senator Klobuchar.
July 23, 2009
Senate amendment agreed to: Amendment SA 1799 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.(text as modified: CR S8018)
July 23, 2009
Amendment SA 1799 proposed by Senator Levin for Senator Klobuchar to Amendment SA 1753. (consideration: CR S8005-8017, S8018-8023; text: CR S8016) To require the Department of Defense to improve access to mental health care for family members of members of the National Guard and Reserve who are deployed overseas.
July 23, 2009
Amendment SA 1799 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent. (text as modified: CR S8018)
July 23, 2009
Amendment SA 1799 was modified to be a first degree amendment by Unanimous Consent.
July 23, 2009
Amendment SA 1799 proposed by Senator Levin for Senator Klobuchar.
July 23, 2009