Sec. 561. Family readiness: definitions; communication strategy; report
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Not later than 6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Secretaries of the military departments, shall define the terms military family readiness and military family resiliency . Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Secretaries of the military departments, shall establish and implement a strategy regarding communication with military families.
The strategy shall include the following: The use of a variety of modes of communication to ensure the broadest means of communicating with military families. Updating an existing annual standardized survey that assesses military family readiness to address the following issues: Communication with beneficiaries. Child care. Education, Spousal employment. The Exceptional Family Member Program. Financial literacy. Financial stress. Health care (including copayments, network adequacy, and the availability of appointments with health care providers).
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of the Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a report regarding the feasibility of implementing the recommendations in— chapter 3 of the report of the Inspector General of the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2020, Ensuring Wellness and Wellbeing of Service-Members and their Families ; and the report, dated July 2019, of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, titled Strengthening the Military Family Readiness System for a Changing American Society .