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.
The bill’s titles are written by its sponsor.
Sponsor and status
116th Congress (2019–2021)
Introduced on Jan 15, 2019
This bill is in the first stage of the legislative process. It was introduced into Congress on January 15, 2019. It will typically be considered by committee next before it is possibly sent on to the House or Senate as a whole.
Position statements
What legislators are saying
“Congressman Brown Champions Local, National Priorities In Most Progressive National Defense Authorization Act In A Decade”
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Rep. Anthony Brown [D-MD4]
(Sponsor)
on Jul 12, 2019
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H.R. 563 is a bill in the United States Congress.
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