[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 93 (Wednesday, June 6, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3231-S3232]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2306. Mr. BLUMENTHAL submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed to amendment SA 2282 submitted by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and 
Mr. McCain) and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 5515, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 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 C of title V, add the following:

     SEC. 537. CORRECTION OF MILITARY RECORDS AND DISCHARGE REVIEW 
                   MATTERS.

       (a) Correction of Military Records.--
       (1) Use of secretarial authority.--Paragraph (1) of section 
     1552(a) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by 
     striking ``may'' both places it appears and inserting 
     ``shall''.
       (2) Indexing of final decisions of boards.--Paragraph (5) 
     of such section is amended to read as follows:
       ``(5) Final decisions of boards under this subsection shall 
     be made available to the public in electronic form on a 
     centralized Internet website. Decisions shall be made 
     available in summary form (but may include such other 
     information as the Secretary concerned considers 
     appropriate), and shall be indexed and searchable on the 
     website by subject matter. There shall be redacted from any 
     decision so made available all personally identifiable 
     information.''.
       (b) Indexing of Final Decisions of Boards of Review of 
     Discharge or Dismissal.--Section 1553 of such title is 
     amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(g) Final decisions of boards of review under this 
     section shall be made available to the public in electronic 
     form on a centralized Internet website. Decisions shall be 
     made available in summary form (but may include such other 
     information as the Secretary concerned considers 
     appropriate), and shall be indexed and searchable on the 
     website by

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     subject matter. There shall be redacted from any decision so 
     made available all personally identifiable information.''.
       (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall take effect on October 1, 2019.
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