[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 88 (Wednesday, June 3, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3693-S3694]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1510. Mr. HELLER (for himself and Mr. Casey) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. 
McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to authorize appropriations for fiscal 
year 2016

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for military activities of the Department of Defense and for military 
construction, 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 C of title VII, add the following:

     SEC. 738. REPORT ON INTEROPERABILITY BETWEEN ELECTRONIC 
                   HEALTH RECORDS SYSTEMS OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
                   AND DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.

       Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of 
     Veterans Affairs shall jointly submit to Congress a report 
     that sets forth a timeline with milestones for achieving 
     interoperability between the electronic health records 
     systems of the Department of Defense and the Department of 
     Veterans Affairs.
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