[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 133 (Friday, August 1, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S5306]
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SA 3529. Mr. BOOKER 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 end of subtitle C of title VII, add the following:
SEC. 724. MODIFICATION OF ANNUAL REPORT ON SUICIDE AMONG
MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES.
Section 741(a)(2) of the National Defense Authorization Act
for Fiscal Year 2020 (Public Law 116-92; 133 Stat. 1467), as
amended by section 736(2)(B) of the Servicemember Quality of
Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 2025 (Public Law 118-159), is amended--
(1) by redesignating subparagraphs (I) through (M) as
subparagraphs (K) through (O), respectively; and
(2) by inserting after subparagraph (H) the following new
subparagraphs:
``(I) An of analysis of Defense Organizational Climate
Surveys (DEOCSs) and Defense Organizational Climate Pulses
(DOCPs) for reporting organizations with suicides identified
under subparagraph (A), to identify the percentage of
organizations with reported suicidal events that also had one
or more unfavorable command climate factor ratings.
``(J) A comparison of the percentage of unfavorable command
climate factor ratings in organizations described in
subparagraph (I) to the military departments at large.''.
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