Chiropractic Care Available to All Veterans Act

Chiropractic Care Available to All Veterans Act

This bill 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 (VA) medical centers and clinics to be carried out at: (1) no fewer than 75 medical centers by December 31, 2014, and (2) all medical centers by December 31, 2018.

Chiropractic examinations and services are included within required VA medical, rehabilitative, and preventive health care services.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2251 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2251

   To amend the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Programs 
 Enhancement Act of 2001 and title 38, United States Code, to require 
  the provision of chiropractic care and services to veterans at all 
Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers and to expand access to 
                        such care and services.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 28, 2017

 Ms. Roybal-Allard (for herself, Mr. Jones, Mr. Soto, Ms. Shea-Porter, 
  Ms. Meng, Mr. DeFazio, Mr. Bishop of Georgia, Mrs. Napolitano, Mr. 
    Castro of Texas, Ms. Judy Chu of California, Ms. Velazquez, Ms. 
   Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico, Mrs. Torres, Mr. Vela, Mr. 
   Gonzalez of Texas, Mr. Gene Green of Texas, Ms. Jackson Lee, Ms. 
    Sanchez, Mr. Gallego, Ms. Barragan, Mr. Hastings, Mr. Larson of 
Connecticut, Mr. Huffman, Mr. David Scott of Georgia, Ms. Plaskett, Mr. 
   Moulton, and Mr. Himes) 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 and title 38, United States Code, to require 
  the provision of chiropractic care and services to veterans at all 
Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers and to expand access to 
                        such care and services.

    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 ``Chiropractic Care Available to All 
Veterans Act''.

SEC. 2. 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, 2014, and at all 
        medical centers by not later than December 31, 2018.''.

SEC. 3. EXPANDED CHIROPRACTOR SERVICES AVAILABLE TO VETERANS.

    (a) Medical Services.--Paragraph (6) of section 1701 of title 38, 
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraph:
                    ``(H) Chiropractic services.''.
    (b) Rehabilitative Services.--Paragraph (8) of such section is 
amended by inserting ``chiropractic,'' after ``counseling,''.
    (c) Preventive Health Services.--Paragraph (9) of such section is 
amended--
            (1) by redesignating subparagraphs (F) through (K) as 
        subparagraphs (G) through (L), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after subparagraph (E) the following new 
        subparagraph (F):
                    ``(F) periodic and preventative chiropractic 
                examinations and services;''.
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