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House Bill 563
116th Congress(2019-2020)
DD–214 Modernization Act
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H. R. 563 (Introduced-in-House)


116th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 563


To require the Secretary of Defense to modify the Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty (DD Form 214) to include a specific block explicitly identified as the location in which a member of the Armed Forces may provide one or more email addresses by which the member may be contacted.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 15, 2019

Mr. Brown of Maryland (for himself, Mr. Jones, Mr. Khanna, Mr. Mast, Mr. Moulton, Ms. Stefanik, Mr. Suozzi, Ms. Norton, Mr. Espaillat, Mr. Carbajal, Mr. Gallagher, Mr. Takano, Mr. Evans, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Panetta, Mr. Rose of New York, Mr. Langevin, Ms. Kuster of New Hampshire, Mr. Bergman, Mr. Cook, Mr. Gallego, Mr. Hastings, and Mr. O'Halleran) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services

A BILL

To require the Secretary of Defense to modify the Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty (DD Form 214) to include a specific block explicitly identified as the location in which a member of the Armed Forces may provide one or more email addresses by which the member may be contacted.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. Short title.

This Act may be cited as the “DD–214 Modernization Act”.

SEC. 2. Inclusion of specific email address block on Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty (DD Form 214).

(a) Modification required.—The Secretary of Defense shall modify the Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty (DD Form 214) to include a specific block explicitly identified as the location in which a member of the Armed Forces may provide one or more email addresses by which the member may be contacted after discharge or release from active duty in the Armed Forces.

(b) Deadline for modification.—The Secretary of Defense shall release a revised Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty (DD Form 214), modified as required by subsection (a), not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act.