ANNUAL BENEFICIARY SURVEY.

SEC. 724. [10 U.S.C. 1071 note] ANNUAL BENEFICIARY SURVEY. (a) Survey Required.—The administering Secretaries shall conduct annually a formal survey of persons receiving health care under chapter 55 of title 10, United States Code, in order to determine the following: (1) The availability of health care services to such persons through the health care system provided for under that chapter, the types of services received, and the facilities in which the services were provided. (2) The familiarity of such persons with the services available under that system and with the facilities in which such services are provided. (3) The health of such persons. (4) The level of satisfaction of such persons with that system and the quality of the health care provided through that system. (5) Such other matters as the administering Secretaries determine appropriate. (b) Exemption.—An annual survey under subsection (a) shall be treated as not a collection of information for the purposes for which such term is defined in section 3502(4) of title 44, United States Code. (c) Definition.—For purposes of this section, the term “administering Secretaries” has the meaning given such term in section 1072(3) of title 10, United States Code.