S.Amdt. 2388

SA 2388. Ms. WARREN (for herself and Mrs. Ernst) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2282 submitted by Mr.

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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 VII, add the following:

SEC. 729. DOCUMENTATION OF INFORMATION ON BLAST EXPOSURES IN
SERVICE RECORDS OF MILITARY PERSONNEL.

(a) In General.--In accordance with such guidance as the
Secretary of Defense shall issue for purposes of this
section, each Secretary of a military department shall
include in the military service records of members of the
Armed Forces under the jurisdiction of such Secretary
appropriate documentation of information on any blasts to
which such members are exposed during service in the Armed
Forces (whether in combat or training), including the
following:
(1) The month and year of exposure.
(2) The severity of the exposure, which may include the
blast pressure experienced during exposure and other features
as determined by the Secretary.
(3) Whether exposure occurred during combat or training.
(4) Whether a weapon was the source of the blast, and, if
so, the type of weapon.
(5) Such other information on the exposure as the Secretary
of Defense shall specify in the guidance.
(b) Reports.--
(1) In general.--Not later than one year after the date of
the enactment of this Act, and biennially thereafter, the
Secretary shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of
the Senate and the House of Representatives a report on blast
pressure exposure of members of the Armed Forces during--
(A) with respect to the initial report, the one-year period
ending on the date of such report; and
(B) with respect to each subsequent report, the two-year
period ending on the date of such report.
(2) Information from service records.--Each report
submitted under paragraph (1) shall include summary
descriptions of the information specified in each paragraph
of subsection (a) that was included in the records of such
members during the period covered by such report.
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