[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 563 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 563

   To require the Secretary of Defense to modify the Certificate of 
   Release or Discharge from Active Duty (DD Form 214) to include a 
specific block explicitly identified as the location in which a member 
 of the Armed Forces may provide one or more email addresses by which 
                      the member may be contacted.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 15, 2019

 Mr. Brown of Maryland (for himself, Mr. Jones, Mr. Khanna, Mr. Mast, 
 Mr. Moulton, Ms. Stefanik, Mr. Suozzi, Ms. Norton, Mr. Espaillat, Mr. 
   Carbajal, Mr. Gallagher, Mr. Takano, Mr. Evans, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. 
    Panetta, Mr. Rose of New York, Mr. Langevin, Ms. Kuster of New 
 Hampshire, Mr. Bergman, Mr. Cook, Mr. Gallego, Mr. Hastings, and Mr. 
 O'Halleran) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the Secretary of Defense to modify the Certificate of 
   Release or Discharge from Active Duty (DD Form 214) to include a 
specific block explicitly identified as the location in which a member 
 of the Armed Forces may provide one or more email addresses by which 
                      the member may be contacted.

    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 ``DD-214 Modernization Act''.

SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF SPECIFIC EMAIL ADDRESS BLOCK ON CERTIFICATE OF 
              RELEASE OR DISCHARGE FROM ACTIVE DUTY (DD FORM 214).

    (a) Modification Required.--The Secretary of Defense shall modify 
the Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty (DD Form 214) 
to include a specific block explicitly identified as the location in 
which a member of the Armed Forces may provide one or more email 
addresses by which the member may be contacted after discharge or 
release from active duty in the Armed Forces.
    (b) Deadline for Modification.--The Secretary of Defense shall 
release a revised Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty 
(DD Form 214), modified as required by subsection (a), not later than 
one year after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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