S.Amdt. 597

SA 597. Mr. MENENDEZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2020 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. STUDY ON HEALTH DATA SAFETY OF MEMBERS OF THE ARMED
FORCES AND VETERANS.

(a) In General.--The Comptroller General of the United
States shall conduct a study on the following:
(1) The prevalence of theft of medical identification of
veterans.
(2) The measures taken by the Department of Defense to
preserve health data safety in the medical record system of
the Department while changing over to electronic records.
(3) How often the Secretary of Veterans Affairs corrects
inaccurate medical records of veterans and how pervasive of a
problem inaccurate medical records are for the Department of
Veterans Affairs.
(4) The length of time it takes for the Secretary to
correct inaccurate medical records.
(5) Whether any veterans are being denied their request to
change an erroneous medical record, and if so, the prevalence
of such an occurrence.
(b) Report.--Not later than [180 DAYS], the Comptroller
General shall submit to Congress a report on the results of
the study conducted under subsection (a).
______