S.Amdt. 4363

SA 4363. Mr. BROWN (for himself and Mr. Blunt) submitted an amendment
intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2943, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2017 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; which was
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle B of title VII, add the following:

SEC. 740. REQUIREMENTS REGARDING UPDATE BY SECRETARY OF
DEFENSE OF DEPLOYMENT HEALTH FORMS.

(a) Post Deployment Health Assessment.--When first updating
the post deployment health assessment conducted by the
Department of Defense after the date of the enactment of this
Act, the Secretary of Defense shall include in such
assessment a question relating to whether a member of the
Armed Forces has witnessed or observed any in-service
stressor, including any event, activity, or incident, during
the deployment of the member.
(b) Instruction on Deployment Health.--When first updating
Department of Defense Instruction 6490.03 ``Deployment
Health'' after the date of the enactment of this Act, the
Secretary of Defense shall ensure that a description of any
in-service stressor, including any event, activity, incident,
or being a witness to any such event, activity, or incident,
experienced by a member of the Armed Forces that may have
caused or contributed to post-traumatic stress disorder
(PTSD) or mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) while in combat
or on active duty in the Armed Forces and any records and
data relating to that in-service stressor are electronically
uploaded into the military personnel files and medical
records of the member for the permanent record of the member.
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