118 STAT. 1997 PUBLIC LAW 108–375—OCT. 28, 2004 (b) ACCOUNTABILITY FOR MEDICAL READINESS OF INDIVIDUALS AND UNITS OF THE RESERVE COMPONENTS.— (1) POLICY.—The Secretary of Defense shall take measures, in addition to those required by section 1074f of title 10, United States Code, to ensure that individual members and com manders of reserve component units fulfill their responsibilities and meet the requirements for medical and dental readiness of members of the units. Such measures may include— (A) requiring more frequent health assessments of members than is required by section 1074f(b) of title 10, United States Code, with an objective of having every member of the Selected Reserve receive a health assess ment as specified in section 1074f of such title not less frequently than once every two years; and (B) providing additional support and information to commanders to assist them in improving the health status of members of their units. (2) REVIEW AND FOLLOWUP CARE.—The measures under this subsection shall provide for review of the health assess ments under paragraph (1) by a medical professional and for any followup care and treatment that is otherwise authorized for medical or dental readiness. (3) MODIFICATION OF PREDEPLOYMENT HEALTH ASSESSMENT SURVEY.—In carrying out paragraph (1), the Secretary shall— (A) to the extent practicable, modify the predeployment health assessment survey to bring such survey into con formity with the detailed postdeployment health assess ment survey in use as of October 1, 2004; and (B) ensure the use of the predeployment health assess ment survey, as so modified, for predeployment health assessments after that date. (c) UNIFORM POLICY ON DEFERRAL OF MEDICAL TREATMENT PENDING DEPLOYMENT TO THEATERS OF OPERATIONS.— (1) REQUIREMENT FOR POLICY.—The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe, for uniform applicability throughout the Armed Forces, a policy on deferral of medical treatment of members pending deployment. (2) CONTENT.—The policy prescribed under paragraph (1) may specify the following matters: (A) The circumstances under which treatment for med ical conditions may be deferred to be provided within a theater of operations in order to prevent delay or other disruption of a deployment to that theater. (B) The circumstances under which medical conditions are to be treated before deployment to that theater. 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— 10 USC 1074 note. 10 USC 1074 note.
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