[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 88 (Wednesday, June 3, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S3713]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1563. Mr. BLUMENTHAL 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 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 IMPLEMENTATION OF DATA SECURITY AND 
                   TRANSMISSION STANDARDS FOR ELECTRONIC HEALTH 
                   RECORDS.

       (a) In General.--Not later than June 1, 2016, the Secretary 
     of Defense and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall 
     jointly submit to Congress a report on the standards for 
     security and transmission of data to be implemented by the 
     Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs 
     in deploying the new or updated, as the case may be, 
     electronic health record system of each such Department 
     (required to be deployed by each such Department under 
     section 713 of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
     Fiscal Year 2014 (Public Law 113-66; 10 U.S.C. 1071 note)) at 
     military installations and in field environments.
       (b) Transmission of Data.--The report required by 
     subsection (a) shall include information on standards for 
     transmission of data between the Department of Defense and 
     the Department of Veterans Affairs and standards for 
     transmission of data between each such Department and private 
     sector entities.
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