[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 84 (Thursday, May 26, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S3355]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4363. Mr. BROWN (for himself and Mr. Blunt) submitted an amendment 
intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2943, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2017 for military activities of the 
Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense 
activities of the Department of Energy, 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 B of title VII, add the following:

     SEC. 740. REQUIREMENTS REGARDING UPDATE BY SECRETARY OF 
                   DEFENSE OF DEPLOYMENT HEALTH FORMS.

       (a) Post Deployment Health Assessment.--When first updating 
     the post deployment health assessment conducted by the 
     Department of Defense after the date of the enactment of this 
     Act, the Secretary of Defense shall include in such 
     assessment a question relating to whether a member of the 
     Armed Forces has witnessed or observed any in-service 
     stressor, including any event, activity, or incident, during 
     the deployment of the member.
       (b) Instruction on Deployment Health.--When first updating 
     Department of Defense Instruction 6490.03 ``Deployment 
     Health'' after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
     Secretary of Defense shall ensure that a description of any 
     in-service stressor, including any event, activity, incident, 
     or being a witness to any such event, activity, or incident, 
     experienced by a member of the Armed Forces that may have 
     caused or contributed to post-traumatic stress disorder 
     (PTSD) or mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) while in combat 
     or on active duty in the Armed Forces and any records and 
     data relating to that in-service stressor are electronically 
     uploaded into the military personnel files and medical 
     records of the member for the permanent record of the member.
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