BASELINE HEALTH DATA COLLECTION PROGRAM.

SEC. 733. BASELINE HEALTH DATA COLLECTION PROGRAM.(a) Requirement for Program.—(1) In general.—Chapter 55 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 1092 the following new section:“§ 1092a. Persons entering the armed forces: baseline health data“(a) Program Required.—The Secretary of Defense shall carry out a program—118 STAT. 1998“(1) to collect baseline health data from each person entering the armed forces, at the time of entry into the armed forces; and “(2) to provide for computerized compilation and maintenance of the baseline health data.“(b) Purposes.—The program under this section shall be designed to achieve the following purposes:“(1) To facilitate understanding of how subsequent exposures related to service in the armed forces affect health.“(2) To facilitate development of early intervention and prevention programs to protect health and readiness.” .(2) Clerical amendment.—The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 1092 the following new item: “1092a. Persons entering the armed forces: baseline health data.”. (3) Time for implementation.—The Secretary of Defense shall implement the program required under section 1092a of title 10, United States Code (as added by paragraph (1)), not later than two years after the date of the enactment of this Act.(b) Interim Standards for Blood Sampling.—(1) Time requirements.—Subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary of Defense shall require that—(A) the blood samples necessary for the predeployment medical examination of a member of the Armed Forces required under section 1074f(b) of title 10, United States Code, be drawn not earlier than 120 days before the date of the deployment; and(B) the blood samples necessary for the postdeployment medical examination of a member of the Armed Forces required under such section 1074f(b) of such title be drawn not later than 30 days after the date on which the deployment ends.(2) Contingent applicability.—The standards under paragraph (1) shall apply unless the Joint Medical Readiness Oversight Committee established by section 1301 recommends, and the Secretary approves, different standards for blood sampling.