Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Welcome Home Veterans Act of 2023”.
Welcome Home Veterans Act of 2023
A BILL
To provide for opt-out sharing of information on members retiring or separating from the Armed Forces with community-based organizations and related entities.
Sec. 2 Opt-out sharing of information on members retiring or separating from the Armed Forces with community-based organizations and related entities
Section 570F of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 (Public Law 116–92; 10 U.S.C. 1142 note) is amended—
in subsection (c)—
by striking “out the form to indicate an email address” and inserting the following: “out the form to indicate—
“(1) an email address; and”
by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
“(2) if the individual would like to opt-out of the transmittal of the individual’s information to and through a State veterans agency as described in subsection (a).”
by amending subsection (d) to read as follows:
“(d) Opt-Out of information sharing—Information on an individual shall be transmitted to and through a State veterans agency as described in subsection (a) unless the individual indicates pursuant to subsection (c)(2) that the individual would like to opt out of such transmittal.”