S.Amdt. 2685

SA 2685. Mr. BOOKER 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 appropriate place in title V, insert the following:

SEC. __. REPORTING ON COMMAND CLIMATE IN MILITARY
ORGANIZATIONS WITH REPORTED SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR.

(a) Report.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall
submit to the congressional defense committees a report on
command climate survey outcomes for organizations with
reported suicide and suicide attempts.
(2) Elements.--The report required under paragraph (1)
shall include the following elements:
(A) A statistical sample from the last five years of
suicide and identified suicide attempts by active and reserve
members as reported on the Department of Defense Suicide
Event Report (DoDSER), and an analysis of Defense
Organizational Climate Surveys (DEOCSs) and Defense
Organizational Climate Pulses (DOCPs), to identify the
prevalence of organizations with reported suicidal events
that also had unfavorable command climate factor ratings.
(B) An examination of the DEOCSs/DOCPs immediately
preceding and following reported suicidal events for each
such member's assigned organization, including, for
organizations with one or more DEOCS/DOCP unfavorable factor
ratings, an identification of the unfavorable DEOCS/DOCP
factors and the contextual factors surrounding the suicidal
event identified in the DoDSER.
(C) A comparison of the prevalence of unfavorable command
climate factor ratings in organizations described in
subparagraph (A) to the military services at large.
(b) Availability of Defense Organizational Climate Surveys
and Defense Organizational Climate Pulses.--The Secretary of
Defense shall provide upon request copies of DEOCSs/DOCPs
results to the families of members of the Armed Forces that
have died by suicide.
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