Veterans National Traumatic Brain Injury Treatment Act

Veterans National Traumatic Brain Injury Treatment Act

This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to implement a pilot program to furnish, under the Veterans Community Care Program, hyperbaric oxygen therapy to veterans with traumatic brain injuries or post-traumatic stress disorder.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8306 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8306

   To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a pilot 
  program to furnish hyperbaric oxygen therapy to a veteran who has a 
       traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 17, 2020

 Mr. Murphy of North Carolina introduced the following bill; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a pilot 
  program to furnish hyperbaric oxygen therapy to a veteran who has a 
       traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder.

    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 ``Veterans National Traumatic Brain 
Injury Treatment Act''.

SEC. 2. PILOT PROGRAM TO FURNISH HYPERBARIC OXYGEN THERAPY TO A VETERAN 
              WITH TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY OR POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS 
              DISORDER.

    (a) Establishment.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall 
implement a pilot program to furnish HBOT to a veteran who has a 
traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder through a 
health care provider described in section 1703(c)(5) of title 38, 
United States Code.
    (b) Locations.--The Secretary shall select three Veterans 
Integrated Service Networks in which to operate the pilot program.
    (c) Funding.--
            (1) There is in the general fund of the Treasury a fund to 
        be known as the ``VA HBOT Fund'' (in this Act referred to as 
        the ``Fund'').
            (2) The sole source of monies for the Fund shall be 
        donations received by the Secretary for express purposes of the 
        Fund.
            (3) Amounts in the Fund shall be available to the Secretary 
        without fiscal year limitation to pay for HBOT under subsection 
        (a).
            (4) The Fund shall terminate on the termination date under 
        subsection (d).
    (d) Termination.--The pilot program shall terminate on the day that 
is five years after the date of the enactment of this Act.
    (e) HBOT Defined.--In this Act, the term ``HBOT'' means hyperbaric 
oxygen therapy with a medical device--
            (1) approved by the Food and Drug Administration; or
            (2) issued an investigational device exemption by the Food 
        and Drug Administration.
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