[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 99 (Thursday, June 13, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3596]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 597. Mr. MENENDEZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2020 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 VII, add the following:

     SEC. 729. STUDY ON HEALTH DATA SAFETY OF MEMBERS OF THE ARMED 
                   FORCES AND VETERANS.

       (a) In General.--The Comptroller General of the United 
     States shall conduct a study on the following:
       (1) The prevalence of theft of medical identification of 
     veterans.
       (2) The measures taken by the Department of Defense to 
     preserve health data safety in the medical record system of 
     the Department while changing over to electronic records.
       (3) How often the Secretary of Veterans Affairs corrects 
     inaccurate medical records of veterans and how pervasive of a 
     problem inaccurate medical records are for the Department of 
     Veterans Affairs.
       (4) The length of time it takes for the Secretary to 
     correct inaccurate medical records.
       (5) Whether any veterans are being denied their request to 
     change an erroneous medical record, and if so, the prevalence 
     of such an occurrence.
       (b) Report.--Not later than [180 DAYS], the Comptroller 
     General shall submit to Congress a report on the results of 
     the study conducted under subsection (a).
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