[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 99 (Thursday, June 13, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3618]
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  SA 634. Mr. CASSIDY (for himself and Mr. Tester) 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. REVIEW OF RECORDS OF FORMER MEMBERS OF THE ARMED 
                   FORCES WHO DIE BY SUICIDE WITHIN ONE YEAR OF 
                   SEPARATION FROM THE ARMED FORCES.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary 
     of Veterans Affairs shall jointly and retrospectively review 
     the records of each former member of the Armed Forces who 
     died by suicide within one year of separation from the Armed 
     Forces during the five-year period preceding the date of the 
     enactment of this Act.
       (b) Elements.--The review required by subsection (a) with 
     respect to a former member of the Armed Forces shall include 
     consideration of the following:
       (1) Whether or not the Department of Defense had previously 
     identified the former member as being at risk for suicide and 
     if so, what risk factors were present and how those risk 
     factors correlated to the circumstances of the death of the 
     former member.
       (2) If the former member was eligible to receive health 
     care services from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
       (3) If the former member received health care services, 
     including mental health care services and Readjustment 
     Counseling Services, from a facility of the Department of 
     Veterans Affairs, following their separation from the Armed 
     Forces.
       (4) If the former member had received a mental health 
     waiver during service in the Armed Forces.
       (5) The employment status, housing status, marital status, 
     age, rank within the Armed Forces (such as enlisted and 
     officer), and branch of the Armed Services of the former 
     member.
       (6) If support services, specified by the type of service 
     (such as employment, mental health, etc.), were provided to 
     the former member during the one-year period after separation 
     from the Armed Forces, disaggregated by--
       (A) services from the Department of Defense;
       (B) services from the Department of Veterans Affairs; and
       (C) services provided by another entity.
       (c) Report.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than one year after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense and the 
     Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall jointly submit to the 
     appropriate committees of Congress a report on the aggregate 
     results of the review performed under subsection (a).
       (2) Appropriate committees of congress defined.--In this 
     subsection, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' 
     means--
       (A) The Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
     Veterans' Affairs of the Senate; and
       (B) The Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
     Veterans' Affairs of the House of Representatives.
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