§3530 Office of Wellness and Workforce Support

Summary

Creates an office inside the Agency to support the physical and mental health and overall wellbeing of eligible people. A Chief Wellbeing Officer will run the office and give regular updates to the Director. The Director must assign enough staff who work only on the office’s duties while assigned. The office must help eligible people—current or former Agency officers and employees, and others the Director says are affiliated—with advice on physical and mental health, access to care, and other related benefits. It must help people apply for and navigate federal benefits, including benefits under section 3519b. The office will keep and share lists of doctors, mental‑health providers, chaplains, and lawyers familiar with Agency needs, but listing someone is not an endorsement and the Director is not liable for their actions. Help must be kept confidential when the law allows. Any rules about that confidentiality must be sent to the congressional intelligence committees and the Defense Subcommittees of the Senate and House Appropriations Committees within 30 days after the rules are made.