S.Amdt. 2306

SA 2306. Mr. BLUMENTHAL submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed to amendment SA 2282 submitted by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and
Mr. McCain) and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 5515, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 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 C of title V, add the following:

SEC. 537. CORRECTION OF MILITARY RECORDS AND DISCHARGE REVIEW
MATTERS.

(a) Correction of Military Records.--
(1) Use of secretarial authority.--Paragraph (1) of section
1552(a) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by
striking ``may'' both places it appears and inserting
``shall''.
(2) Indexing of final decisions of boards.--Paragraph (5)
of such section is amended to read as follows:
``(5) Final decisions of boards under this subsection shall
be made available to the public in electronic form on a
centralized Internet website. Decisions shall be made
available in summary form (but may include such other
information as the Secretary concerned considers
appropriate), and shall be indexed and searchable on the
website by subject matter. There shall be redacted from any
decision so made available all personally identifiable
information.''.
(b) Indexing of Final Decisions of Boards of Review of
Discharge or Dismissal.--Section 1553 of such title is
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
``(g) Final decisions of boards of review under this
section shall be made available to the public in electronic
form on a centralized Internet website. Decisions shall be
made available in summary form (but may include such other
information as the Secretary concerned considers
appropriate), and shall be indexed and searchable on the
website by

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subject matter. There shall be redacted from any decision so
made available all personally identifiable information.''.
(c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section
shall take effect on October 1, 2019.
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