S.Amdt. 6112

SA 6112. Ms. ERNST (for herself, Mr. Cotton, Mrs. Gillibrand, and Mrs. Feinstein) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 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 A of title VII, add the following:

SEC. 706. PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATIONS FOR MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES RETURNING FROM KABUL, AFGHANISTAN.

(a) Initial Evaluation.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, subject to subsection (c), the Secretary of Defense shall offer an initial psychological evaluation to each member of the Armed Forces who--

(1) served at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, between August 15 and August 29, 2021; and

(2) has not already received a psychological evaluation with respect to such service.

(b) Additional Evaluations.--Subject to subsection (c), the Secretary of Defense shall offer to each member of the Armed Forces who is offered a psychological evaluation under subsection (a), or would have been offered such an evaluation but for the application of subsection (a)(2), an additional evaluation--

(1) not later than 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act; and

(2) not later than 5 years after such date of enactment.

(c) Limitation on Evaluations.--The Secretary of Defense may offer a psychological evaluation to a member of the Armed Forces under subsection (a) or (b) only if the member is on active service or active status at the time the evaluation is to be offered to the member.

(d) Report.--Not later than 220 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the number of members of the Armed Forces, disaggregated by members on active duty and members of the reserve components, who--

(1) are eligible for and have received an initial psychological evaluation under subsection (a); or

(2) have otherwise received a psychological evaluation with respect to service at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, between August 15 and August 29, 2021.

(e) Definitions.--In this section:

(1) Active service; active status.--The terms “active service” and “active status” have the meanings given those terms in section 101(d) of title 10, United States Code.

(2) Psychological evaluation.--The term “psychological evaluation” means an evaluation of the mental health of an individual conducted by a health care professional, psychologist, or doctor either in-person or face-to-face over a virtual platform.