To amend the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Programs Enhancement Act of 2001 to require the provision of chiropractic care and services to veterans at all Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers.

Amends the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Programs Enhancement Act of 2001 to require a program under which the Secretary of Veterans Affairs provides chiropractic care and services to veterans through Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers and clinics to be carried out at: (1) no fewer than 75 medical centers by December 31, 2008; and (2) all medical centers by December 31, 2010.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
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[H.R. 5202 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5202

   To amend the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Programs 
 Enhancement Act of 2001 to require the provision of chiropractic care 
and services to veterans at all Department of Veterans Affairs medical 
                                centers.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 26, 2006

 Mr. Bradley of New Hampshire (for himself and Mr. Filner) introduced 
 the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' 
                                Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Programs 
 Enhancement Act of 2001 to require the provision of chiropractic care 
and services to veterans at all Department of Veterans Affairs medical 
                                centers.

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

SECTION 1. PROGRAM FOR PROVISION OF CHIROPRACTIC CARE AND SERVICES TO 
              VETERANS.

    Section 204(c) of the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care 
Programs Enhancement Act of 2001 (38 U.S.C. 1710 note) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(1)'' before ``The program''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(2) The program shall be carried out at not fewer than 75 medical 
centers by not later than December 31, 2008, and at all medical centers 
by not later than December 31, 2010.''.
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