[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 129 (Monday, July 28, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S4781]
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SA 3063. Mr. MURPHY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 2296, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2026 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 appropriate place in title X, insert the following:
SEC. 10__. QUARTERLY REPORT ON MENTALLY INCAPACITATED AND
MENTALLY INCOMPETENT VETERANS AND DEATH BY
FIREARM SUICIDE.
Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of
this Act and not less frequently than once every quarter
thereafter, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall submit to
the Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and the
Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the House of
Representatives a quarterly report that sets forth--
(1) the number of persons who, in any case arising out of
the administration by the Secretary of laws and benefits
under such title 38, United States Code, have been deemed
within the previous 90 days to be mentally incapacitated,
mentally incompetent, or to be experiencing an extended loss
of consciousness, who were not subject to an order or finding
of a judge, magistrate, or other judicial authority of
competent jurisdiction that such person is a danger to
himself or herself or others; and
(2) of the persons described in paragraph (1), the number
who died by firearm suicide.
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