I 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5336 
To establish or integrate an online significant event tracker (SET) system 
for tracking, reporting, and summarizing exposures of members of the 
Armed Forces, including members of the reserve components thereof, 
to traumatic events, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 31, 2014 
Ms. DUCKWORTH (for herself, Mr. STIVERS, Mr. CUELLAR, and Ms. HAHN) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Armed Services 
A BILL 
To establish or integrate an online significant event tracker 
(SET) system for tracking, reporting, and summarizing 
exposures of members of the Armed Forces, including 
members of the reserve components thereof, to traumatic 
events, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Mental Health Expo-
sure Military Official Record Act of 2014’’. 
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SEC. 2. PURPOSE. 
The purpose of this Act is to implement a significant 
event tracker (SET) system to train and enable members 
of the Armed Forces, including members of the reserve 
components thereof, to track exposures to traumatic 
events and address mental health issues during and after 
service. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) UNIT
COMMANDER
DEFINED.—The term 
‘‘unit commander’’ means the first individual in the 
chain of command with authority over the member 
concerned under the Uniform Code of Military Jus-
tice. 
(2) REPORTABLE EVENT.—The term ‘‘report-
able event’’ includes— 
(A) a kinetic combat patrol; 
(B) witnessed loss of life, dismemberment, 
or significant physical injury in a combat oper-
ation, expeditionary operation, or peacetime 
regular training; 
(C) an injury or exposure that may con-
stitute a traumatic brain injury (TBI), includ-
ing a concussive or mechanical event involving 
the head that occurs in a combat operation, ex-
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peditionary operation, or peacetime regular 
training; 
(D) victimization or witnessing of a sexual 
assault; and 
(E) any other event determined by the Sec-
retary of Defense to be potentially traumatic to 
an affected individual. 
(3) RESERVE COMPONENT.—The term ‘‘reserve 
component’’ means a reserve component of the 
Armed Forces named in section 10101 of title 10, 
United States Code. 
SEC. 4. REQUIREMENT TO IMPLEMENT SET SYSTEM. 
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall prescribe 
regulations to implement the significant event tracker sys-
tem described under section 5 (in this Act referred to as 
the ‘‘SET system’’). 
SEC. 5. SIGNIFICANT EVENT TRACKER (SET) SYSTEM. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of Defense 
shall establish a SET system to track, report, and summa-
rize individual exposures to traumatic events for the pur-
pose of enabling former members of the Armed Forces, 
including members of the reserve components thereof, to 
show evidence of possible traumatic events incurred during 
their service. 
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(b) RECORDING OF EVENTS.— 
(1) RESPONSIBILITY.— 
(A) UNIT
COMMANDERS.—A unit com-
mander may enter reportable events that affect 
the entire unit and its members or delegate to 
a leader of a subunit of the unit commander’s 
command the entry of reportable events affect-
ing the subunit. 
(B) INDIVIDUAL REPORTING.—A unit com-
mander may choose to delegate event reporting 
to the individual members of units who are em-
ployed as short-term, temporary (less than 30 
days) detachments and individual augments 
which, by the nature of their mission, preclude 
the persistent inclusion in one common review-
ing unit. The delegation may be until a pre-
determined date such as the end of a deploy-
ment or on a 30-day basis, as determined by 
the unit commander. 
(C) MEDICAL
TREATMENT
FACILITY.—A 
medical treatment facility may directly enter a 
reportable event affecting a member of the 
Armed Forces undergoing treatment at such fa-
cility for an injury identified by a military med-
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