legislation: 103-hr-5022

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103-hr-5022 103 hr 5022 To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a permanent, confidential database and toll-free telephone line for the collection of medical information concerning members of the Armed Forces and veterans. Armed Forces and National Security 1994-09-12 1994-09-15 Referred to the Subcommittee on Hospitals and Health Care. House Rep. Gejdenson, Sam [D-CT-2] CT D G000120 0 Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, in order to provide information for the detection of patterns of illnesses among military personnel and veterans, to maintain a database of the medical histories, service histories, and relevant personal information of military personnel deployed for any operational mission (beginning with the one in Somalia in 1992-1993) and their spouses and children. Requires permission of the individual before inclusion of information concerning such individual in the database. Requires confidentiality of individual identities represented in the database. Directs the Secretary to maintain a toll-free telephone number to allow military personnel and veterans to report information for inclusion in the database. Allows the Secretary to make database information available to accredited institutions of higher education and other appropriate institutions for medical studies and related research. Directs the Secretary to report annually to appropriate congressional committees on the operation of the database and the toll-free telephone number. 2024-02-07T16:12:44Z  

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