Restoring Maximum Mobility to Our Nation’s Veterans Act of 2019

Restoring Maximum Mobility to Our Nation's Veterans Act of 2019

This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to ensure that each wheelchair furnished to a veteran because of a service-connected disability restores the maximum achievable mobility and function in the activities of daily life, employment, and recreation. The VA may furnish a wheelchair to a veteran because the wheelchair restores an ability that relates exclusively to participation in a recreational activity.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2994 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2994

  To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs to ensure that each wheelchair, furnished to a veteran 
    because of a service-connected disability, restores the maximum 
 achievable mobility in the activities of daily life, employment, and 
                  recreation, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 23, 2019

    Mr. King of Iowa (for himself and Mr. Grothman) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' 
                                Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs to ensure that each wheelchair, furnished to a veteran 
    because of a service-connected disability, restores the maximum 
 achievable mobility in the activities of daily life, employment, and 
                  recreation, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Restoring Maximum Mobility to Our 
Nation's Veterans Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. WHEELCHAIRS FOR VETERANS WITH SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITIES.

    (a) Definition.--Section 1701 of title 38, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(11) The term `wheelchair' includes enhanced power wheelchairs, 
multi-environmental wheelchairs, track wheelchairs, stair-climbing 
wheelchairs, and other power-driven mobility devices.''.
    (b) Enhanced Wheelchairs.--Section 1712(c) of title 38, United 
States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``Dental'' and inserting ``(1) Dental'';
            (2) by striking ``section'' and inserting ``title''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(2) The Secretary shall ensure that each wheelchair, furnished 
under this title to a veteran because of a service-connected 
disability, restores the maximum achievable mobility and function in 
the activities of daily life, employment, and recreation. The Secretary 
may furnish a wheelchair to a veteran because the wheelchair restores 
an ability that relates exclusively to participation in a recreational 
activity.''.
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