[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3636 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3636

To amend title 10, United States Code, to improve the process by which 
the Secretary of Defense verifies that health care professionals of the 
            military departments are appropriately licensed.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 29, 2025

 Mrs. Kiggans of Virginia (for herself and Ms. Jacobs) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to improve the process by which 
the Secretary of Defense verifies that health care professionals of the 
            military departments are appropriately licensed.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. VERIFICATION OF LICENSURE OF HEALTH-CARE PROFESSIONALS OF 
              THE MILITARY DEPARTMENTS.

    Subsection (b) of section 1094 of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
    ``(b)(1) The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that each individual 
who provides health care independently as a health-care professional at 
a health care facility of the Department of Defense meets the 
requirement of subsection (a).
    ``(2) In carrying out paragraph (1), the Secretary shall establish 
a centralized credential system that allows the commanding officer of a 
health care facility of the Department to verify the licensure of a 
health-care professional, regardless of the location of the facility or 
the armed force in which the health-care professional serves. The 
Secretary shall ensure that not less than 90 percent of such 
verifications are completed within seven days of the date on which the 
commanding officer requests such verification if the request does not 
relate to a health-care professional with an adverse record.''.
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