[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S4902]
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  SA 2561. Mr. PADILLA submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2025 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 E of title VII, add the following:

     SEC. 750. REQUIREMENT TO CONNECT TO SUICIDE AND CRISIS 
                   LIFELINE FOR ALL UNCLASSIFIED TELEPHONE SYSTEMS 
                   OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

       The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that all unclassified 
     multi-line telephone systems of the Department of Defense 
     that are connected to or capable of connecting to the 
     telephone network of the United States permit a user of such 
     a system to directly initiate a call to the 9-8-8 Suicide and 
     Crisis Lifeline from any station equipped with dialing 
     facilities, without dialing any additional digit, code, 
     prefix, or post-fix, including any trunk-access code such as 
     the digit ``9'', regardless of whether the user is required 
     to dial such a digit, code, prefix, or post-fix for other 
     calls.
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