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Title VII: Health Care Provisions

Sec. 732Requirement to notify Committees on Armed Services of hospitalization of combat wounded members of the Armed Forces

TL;DR

Amends title 10, United States Code relating to requirement to notify committees on armed services of hospitalization of combat wounded members of the armed forces.

Statutory text

Section 1074l of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:

(d) Other notifications

(1) The Secretary concerned shall notify the Committees on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate of the occurrence of a hospitalization of a member of the armed forces who is—(A)seriously or very seriously wounded in action resulting from the conduct of combat operations; and(B)evacuated from a theater of combat and admitted to any military medical treatment facility or civilian medical treatment facility, regardless of location.

(2) The notifications under paragraph (1)—(A)may be made on an aggregate basis; and(B)may not include personally identifying information of the hospitalized members..