Doug Zembiec Gold Star Family Support Act of 2022
This bill requires the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness within the Department of Defense (DOD) to implement a pilot program on providing training to, validating, and deploying grief companions to facilitate DOD bereavement care following casualty notifications for members of the Armed Forces.
To require the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness 
to carry out a pilot program on providing training to, validating, and 
       deploying grief companions to facilitate bereavement care.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Doug Zembiec Gold Star Family 
Support Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. PILOT PROGRAM ON GRIEF COMPANIONS FOLLOWING CASUALTY 
              NOTIFICATIONS.

    (a) In General.--Commencing not later than 90 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Under Secretary of Defense for 
Personnel and Readiness shall carry out a pilot program on providing 
training to, validating, and deploying grief companions to facilitate 
bereavement care provided by the Department of Defense following 
casualty notifications with respect to members of the Armed Forces.
    (b) Duration.--The Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and 
Readiness shall carry out the pilot program required under subsection 
(a) for a period of not less than one year.
    (c) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated to the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and 
Readiness $250,000 to carry out the pilot program required under 
subsection (a).
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Doug Zembiec Gold Star Family Support Act of 2022
A bill to require the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness to carry out a pilot program on providing training to, validating, and deploying grief companions to facilitate bereavement care.
Doug Zembiec Gold Star Family Support Act of 2022
Sen. Young, Todd