[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 138 (Monday, August 20, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S5725]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3755. Mr. CASSIDY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 3695 proposed by Mr. Shelby to the bill H.R. 6157, 
making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; which was ordered to 
lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in division A, insert the 
     following:
       Sec. ___. (a) The Secretary of Defense shall, through the 
     Joint Trauma Education and Training Directorate established 
     under section 708 of the National Defense Authorization Act 
     for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114-328; 10 U.S.C. 1071 
     note), develop partnerships with civilian academic medical 
     centers and large metropolitan teaching hospitals to improve 
     combat casualty care for personnel of the Armed Forces.
       (b) In carrying out partnerships under subsection (a), 
     trauma surgeons and physicians of the Department of Defense 
     shall partner with level I civilian trauma centers to provide 
     adequate training and readiness for the next generation of 
     medical providers to treat critically injured burn patients.
       (c) The Secretary of Defense shall make every effort to 
     support partnerships under the Joint Trauma Education and 
     Training Directorate with academic institutions that have 
     level I civilian trauma centers, specifically those centers 
     with a burn center, that offer burn rotations and clinical 
     experience to provide adequate training and readiness for the 
     next generation of medical providers to treat critically 
     injured burn patients.
       (d) In this section, the term ``level I civilian trauma 
     center'' has the meaning given that term in section 708 of 
     the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 
     (Public Law 114-328; 10 U.S.C. 1071 note).
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