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Senate Bill 2276
118th Congress(2023-2024)
Welcome Home Veterans Act of 2023
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Introduced in Senate on Jul 12, 2023
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S. 2276 (Introduced-in-Senate)


118th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 2276


To provide for opt-out sharing of information on members retiring or separating from the Armed Forces with community-based organizations and related entities.


IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

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


A BILL

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,

SECTION 1. Short title.

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—

(1) in subsection (c)—

(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.”.