A bill 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)
This bill was introduced on April 30, 2019, in a previous session of Congress, but it did not receive a vote.
1 Cosponsor (1 Democrat)
Position statements
History
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Apr 30, 2019
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Introduced
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S. 1237 (116th) was a bill in the United States Congress.
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Bills numbers restart every two years. That means there are other bills with the number S. 1237. This is the one from the 116th Congress.
This bill was introduced in the 116th Congress, which met from Jan 3, 2019 to Jan 3, 2021. Legislation not passed by the end of a Congress is cleared from the books.
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