[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8571 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8571

To direct the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs to update the 
  electronic health records of the respective departments to include 
 information regarding the deployments of members of the Armed Forces.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 9, 2020

Mr. Rose of New York introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on 
 Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs to update the 
  electronic health records of the respective departments to include 
 information regarding the deployments of members of the Armed Forces.

    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 ``VA/DoD Deployment Interoperability 
Act''.

SEC. 2. INFORMATION REGARDING DEPLOYMENTS IN THE INTEROPERABLE 
              ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD SYSTEMS OF THE DEPARTMENTS OF 
              DEFENSE AND VETERANS AFFAIRS.

    Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs shall update the 
interoperable electronic health record systems of the respective 
departments (developed under section 1635 of the National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (Public Law 110-181; 10 U.S.C. 
1071 note)) to include the following information:
            (1) Whether the member of the Armed Forces or veteran was 
        deployed outside the United States.
            (2) The number of deployments described in paragraph (1).
            (3) The length of each deployment described in paragraph 
        (1).
            (4) Whether the member or veteran served in a theater of 
        combat operations.
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