S.Amdt. 3990

SA 3990. Ms. ERNST (for herself, Mr. Kelly, Mr. Daines, Mr.
Hickenlooper, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Ossoff, Ms. Collins, Mr. Bennet, Mr.
Grassley, Mr. King, Mr. Tillis, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Risch, Mr. Blunt,
Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Marshall,
Mr. Wyden, Mr. Padilla, Mrs. Shaheen, Ms. Rosen, Ms. Hirono, Ms.
Klobuchar, Mr. Graham, Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr. Tuberville, Mr.
Hoeven, Mr. Brown, Ms. Hassan, and Mr. Blumenthal) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr.
Reed and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2022 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. 728. EVALUATION AND STANDARDIZATION OF SUICIDE
PREVENTION EFFORTS BY THE DEPARTMENT OF
DEFENSE.

Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of
this Act, the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and
Readiness shall--
(1) direct the Defense Suicide Prevention Office to
collaborate with each Secretary of a military department--
(A) to develop and implement a process to ensure that
individual non-clinical suicide prevention efforts are
assessed for effectiveness among members of the Armed Forces;
and
(B) to develop consistent suicide-related definitions to be
used throughout the Department of Defense;

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(2) require the use of suicide-related definitions
developed under paragraph (1)(B) to be used in any updated
policies of the Department of Defense or any military
department; and
(3) enhance collaboration between the Defense Suicide
Prevention Office and the Psychological Health Center of
Excellence on the production of annual suicide reports to
minimize duplication of efforts by the Department of Defense.
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