Tap any paragraph to write a margin note. Your notes collect in the Desk below the text and file under cases with @. The side-by-side margin rail opens on a larger screen.

§
Marginalia
Code · BILL · 117th Congress · H.R. 4350 (Placed on Calendar Senate) — To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military c... · Sec. 739

Sec. 739. Independent review of suicide prevention and response at military installations

354 words·~2 min read·/bill/117/hr/4350/pcs/section-739·

A research copy — for the controlling text, always check the official state or federal source. Not legal advice.

Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall establish an independent suicide prevention and response review committee. The committee established under subsection
(a)shall be composed of not fewer than five individuals— designated by the Secretary; with expertise determined to be relevant by the Secretary, including at least one individual who is an experienced provider of mental health services and at least one individual who is an experienced criminal investigator; none of whom may be a member of an Armed Force or a civilian employee of the Department of Defense. The Secretary shall select, for review by the committee established under subsection (a), not fewer than three military installations that have a higher-than-average incidence of suicide by members of the Armed Forces serving at the installation. The Secretary shall ensure that at least one of the installations selected under this subsection is a remote installation of the Department of Defense located outside the contiguous United States. The committee established under subsection
(a)shall review the suicide prevention and response programs and other factors that may contribute to the incidence or prevention of suicide at the military installations selected for review pursuant to subsection (c). Such review shall be conducted through means including— a confidential survey; focus groups; and individual interviews. In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall ensure that the Director of the Office of People Analytics of the Department of Defense and the Director of the Office of Force Resiliency of the Department of Defense coordinate and cooperate with the committee established under subsection (a). Not later than 270 days after the establishment of the committee under subsection (a), the committee shall submit to the Secretary a report containing the results of the reviews conducted by the committee and recommendations of the committee to reduce the incidence of suicide at the military installations reviewed. Not later than 330 days after the establishment of the committee under subsection (a), the committee shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate the report under paragraph (1).
★   the supreme law of the land   ★
Don't Tread on Me
E Pluribus Unum — out of many, one

"If you don't know your rights, you don't have any."

Marginalia · a citizen's law index
A research desk, not legal advice. Always read the cited source before relying on a summary.
Questions or an issue? support@self-law.org
disclaimerMarginalia is a research index, not a law firm. Nothing on this site is legal, tax, or financial advice and no attorney–client relationship is formed by using it. Statutes, regulations, and case law change; summaries, search results, AI output, and member posts may be incomplete, out of date, or wrong. Any interpretation drawn from material on this site should be validated by a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction before you act on it.