[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 158 (Tuesday, September 25, 2018)]
[House]
[Pages H8753-H8754]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   SERGEANT JOHN TOOMBS RESIDENTIAL REHABILITATION TREATMENT FACILITY

  Mr. DesJARLAIS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Veterans' Affairs be discharged from further consideration 
of the bill (H.R. 2634) to designate the Mental Health Residential 
Rehabilitation Treatment Facility Expansion of the Department of 
Veterans Affairs Alvin C. York Medical Center in Murfreesboro, 
Tennessee, as the ``Sergeant John Toombs Residential Rehabilitation 
Treatment Facility'', and ask for its immediate consideration in the 
House.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Arrington). Is there objection to the 
request of the gentleman from Tennessee?
  There was no objection.
  The text of the bill is as follows:

                               H.R. 2634

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

       Congress finds the following:
       (1) Sergeant John Toombs of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, served 
     in the Tennessee Army National Guard as a part of the highly 
     distinguished 230th Signal Corps.
       (2) His six years in the National Guard included a 
     deployment to Afghanistan, where Sergeant Toombs proudly 
     served as a guard and escort for visiting dignitaries and 
     reporters traveling into highly dangerous, war ravaged areas 
     in Afghanistan.
       (3) As a result of his service in Afghanistan, Sergeant 
     Toombs developed symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder 
     (PTSD), a disability he continued to suffer from after 
     leaving the National Guard in 2014.

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       (4) After two years of battling PTSD and failing to receive 
     the necessary treatment, Sgt. Toombs tragically took his own 
     life in November of 2016.
       (5) However, the life of Sergeant Toombs has impacted other 
     veterans in Tennessee suffering from PTSD. Since this 
     devastating tragedy, positive measures have been made to 
     raise awareness and improve the overall treatment of veterans 
     suffering from PTSD within the Tennessee Valley Healthcare 
     System.

     SEC. 2. SERGEANT JOHN TOOMBS RESIDENTIAL REHABILITATION 
                   TREATMENT FACILITY.

       (a) Designation.--The Mental Health Residential 
     Rehabilitation Treatment Facility Expansion of the Department 
     of Veterans Affairs Alvin C. York Medical Center in 
     Murfreesboro, Tennessee, shall be known and designated as the 
     ``Sergeant John Toombs Residential Rehabilitation Treatment 
     Facility'', after the date of the enactment of this Act.
       (b) References.--Any reference in any law, regulation, map, 
     document, paper, or other record of the United States to the 
     Alvin C. York Mental Health Residential Rehabilitation 
     Treatment Facility referred to in subsection (a) shall be 
     deemed to be a reference to the ``Sergeant John Toombs 
     Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Facility''.

  The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, was read 
the third time, and passed, and a motion to reconsider was laid on the 
table.

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