[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 127 (Thursday, July 27, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S4457]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 438. Mr. ROUNDS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2018 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 H of title V, add the following:

     SEC. 583. INCLUSION OF SPECIFIC ELECTRONIC MAIL ADDRESS BLOCK 
                   ON CERTIFICATE OF RELEASE OR DISCHARGE FROM 
                   ACTIVE DUTY.

       (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 electronic mail addresses by 
     which the member may be contacted after discharge or release 
     from active duty in the Armed Forces.
       (b) Voluntary Provision of Addresses.--The provision of one 
     or more electronic mail addresses by a member in a 
     Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty, as 
     modified by subsection (a), shall be voluntary and entirely 
     at the election of the member.
       (c) Deadline for Modification.--The Secretary shall release 
     a revised Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active 
     Duty, modified as required by subsection (a), not later than 
     one year after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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