[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4504 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4504

To improve military readiness by establishing programs to consistently 
  track, retain, and analyze information regarding suicides involving 
  members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces and suicides 
 involving dependents of members of the regular and reserve components.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 28, 2014

 Ms. Tsongas (for herself, Mr. Peters of California, and Mr. Carson of 
   Indiana) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To improve military readiness by establishing programs to consistently 
  track, retain, and analyze information regarding suicides involving 
  members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces and suicides 
 involving dependents of members of the regular and reserve components.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``DoD Suicide Tracking Act of 2014''.

SEC. 2. IMPROVED CONSISTENCY IN RESERVE COMPONENT SUICIDE PREVENTION 
              AND RESILIENCE PROGRAM.

    (a) Policy for Standard Suicide Data Collection, Reporting and 
Assessment.--To improve consistency in and oversight of the suicide 
prevention and resilience program for the National Guard and Reserves 
established pursuant to section 10219 of title 10, United States Code, 
the Secretary of Defense shall prescribe a policy for the development 
of a standard method for collecting, reporting, and assessing suicide 
data and suicide-attempt data involving members of the National Guard 
and Reserves.
    (b) Consultation.--The Secretary of Defense shall develop the 
policy required by subsection (a) in consultation with the Secretaries 
of the military departments, the Chief of the National Guard Bureau, 
and the adjutants general of the States, the Commonwealth of Puerto 
Rico, the District of Columbia, Guam, and the Virgin Islands.
    (c) Submission of Policy and Congressional Briefing.--Not later 
than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary shall submit the policy developed under subsection (a) to the 
Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of 
Representatives. At the request of the committees, the Secretary also 
shall brief such committees on the policy and the implementation status 
of the standardized suicide data collection, reporting and assessment 
method.
    (d) Implementation.--The Secretaries of the military departments, 
with respect to the Reserves, and the Chief of the National Guard 
Bureau and the adjutants general, with respect to the National Guard, 
shall implement the policy developed under subsection (a) within 180 
days after the date of the submission of the policy under subsection 
(c).

SEC. 3. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE SUICIDE PREVENTION PROGRAM FOR MILITARY 
              DEPENDENTS.

    (a) Program Required.--As soon as possible after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall direct the 
Secretary of each military department to develop and implement a 
program to track, retain, and analyze information regarding suicides 
involving dependents of members of the regular and reserve components 
of the Armed Forces under the jurisdiction of that Secretary.
    (b) Dependent Defined.--In this section, the term ``dependent'' 
means a person described in section 1072(2) of title 10, United States 
Code, except that, in the case of a parent or parent-in-law of a member 
of the Armed Forces, the income-support requirement of subparagraph (E) 
of such section does not apply.
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