118th CONGRESS 1st Session |
To provide for opt-out sharing of information on members retiring or separating from the Armed Forces with community-based organizations and related entities.
July 12, 2023
Mr. King (for himself and Mr. Cramer) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs
To provide for opt-out sharing of information on members retiring or separating from the Armed Forces with community-based organizations and related entities.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
This Act may be cited as the “Welcome Home Veterans Act of 2023”.
SEC. 2. Opt-out sharing of information on members retiring or separating from the Armed Forces with community-based organizations and related entities.
Section 570F of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 (Public Law 116–92; 10 U.S.C. 1142 note) is amended—
(A) by striking “out the form to indicate an email address” and inserting the following: “out the form to indicate—
“(1) an email address; and”; and
(B) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
“(2) if the individual would like to opt-out of the transmittal of the individual’s information to and through a State veterans agency as described in subsection (a).”; and
(2) by amending subsection (d) to read as follows:
“(d) Opt-Out of information sharing.—Information on an individual shall be transmitted to and through a State veterans agency as described in subsection (a) unless the individual indicates pursuant to subsection (c)(2) that the individual would like to opt out of such transmittal.”.