S.Amdt. 2561

SA 2561. Mr. PADILLA submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2025 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 E of title VII, add the following:

SEC. 750. REQUIREMENT TO CONNECT TO SUICIDE AND CRISIS
LIFELINE FOR ALL UNCLASSIFIED TELEPHONE SYSTEMS
OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that all unclassified
multi-line telephone systems of the Department of Defense
that are connected to or capable of connecting to the
telephone network of the United States permit a user of such
a system to directly initiate a call to the 9-8-8 Suicide and
Crisis Lifeline from any station equipped with dialing
facilities, without dialing any additional digit, code,
prefix, or post-fix, including any trunk-access code such as
the digit ``9'', regardless of whether the user is required
to dial such a digit, code, prefix, or post-fix for other
calls.
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