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113TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4276 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

SEPTEMBER 17 (legislative day, SEPTEMBER 16), 2014 

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 

AN ACT 

To extend and modify a pilot program on assisted living 

services for veterans with traumatic brain injury. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Veterans Traumatic 

3 Brain Injury Care Improvement Act of 2014’’. 

4 SEC. 2. EXTENSION AND MODIFICATION OF PILOT PRO5 GRAM ON ASSISTED LIVING SERVICES FOR 

6 VETERANS WITH TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY. 

7 (a) MODIFICATION OF REPORT REQUIREMENTS.— 

8 Subsection (e) of section 1705 of the National Defense 

9 Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (Public Law 110– 

10 181; 38 U.S.C. 1710C note) is amended to read as follows: 

11 ‘‘(e) REPORTS.— 

12 ‘‘(1) QUARTERLY REPORTS.— 

13 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—For each calendar 

14 quarter occurring during the period beginning 

15 January 1, 2015, and ending September 30, 

16 2017, the Secretary shall submit to the Com17 mittees on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate and 

18 the House of Representatives a report on the 

19 pilot program. 

20 ‘‘(B) ELEMENTS.—Each report submitted 

21 under subparagraph (A) shall include each of 

22 the following for the quarter preceding the 

23 quarter during which the report is submitted 

24 the following: 

25 ‘‘(i) The number of individuals that 

26 participated in the pilot program. 


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1 ‘‘(ii) The number of individuals that 

2 successfully completed the pilot program. 

3 ‘‘(iii) The degree to which pilot pro4 gram participants and family members of 

5 pilot program participants were satisfied 

6 with the pilot program. 

7 ‘‘(iv) The interim findings and conclu8 sions of the Secretary with respect to the 

9 success of the pilot program and rec10 ommendations for improvement. 

11 ‘‘(2) FINAL REPORT.— 

12 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 60 

13 days after the completion of the pilot program, 

14 the Secretary shall submit to the Committees 

15 on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate and the 

16 House of Representatives a final report on the 

17 pilot program. 

18 ‘‘(B) ELEMENTS.—The final report re19 quired by subparagraph (A) shall include the 

20 following: 

21 ‘‘(i) A description of the pilot pro22 gram. 

23 ‘‘(ii) The Secretary’s assessment of 

24 the utility of the activities carried out 

25 under the pilot program in enhancing the 


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1 rehabilitation, quality of life, and commu2 nity reintegration of veterans with trau3 matic brain injury. 

4 ‘‘(iii) An evaluation of the pilot pro5 gram in light of independent living pro6 grams carried out by the Secretary under 

7 title 38, United States Code, including— 

8 ‘‘(I) whether the pilot program 

9 duplicates services provided under 

10 such independent living programs; 

11 ‘‘(II) the ways in which the pilot 

12 program provides different services 

13 that the services provided under such 

14 independent living program; 

15 ‘‘(III) how the pilot program 

16 could be better defined or shaped; and 

17 ‘‘(IV) whether the pilot program 

18 should be incorporated into such inde19 pendent living programs. 

20 ‘‘(iv) Such recommendations as the 

21 Secretary considers appropriate regarding 

22 improving the pilot program.’’. 

23 (b) DEFINITION OF COMMUNITY-BASED BRAIN IN24 JURY RESIDENTIAL REHABILITATIVE CARE SERVICES.— 

25 Such section is further amended— 


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1 (1) in the section heading, by striking ‘‘AS2 SISTED LIVING’’ and inserting ‘‘COMMUNITY3 BASED BRAIN INJURY RESIDENTIAL REHABILI4 TATIVE CARE’’; 

5 (2) in subsection (c), in the subsection heading, 

6 by striking ‘‘ASSISTED LIVING’’ and inserting ‘‘COM7 MUNITY-BASED BRAIN INJURY RESIDENTIAL REHA8 BILITATIVE CARE’’; 

9 (3) by striking ‘‘assisted living’’ each place it 

10 appears, and inserting ‘‘community-based brain in11 jury rehabilitative care’’; and 

12 (4) in subsection (f)(1), by striking ‘‘and per13 sonal care’’ and inserting ‘‘rehabilitation, and per14 sonal care’’. 

15 (c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 

16 this section shall take effect on the date of the enactment 

17 of this Act. 

18 (d) PROHIBITION ON NEW APPROPRIATIONS.—No 

19 additional funds are authorized to be appropriated to 

20 carry out this Act and the amendments made by this Act, 


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1 and this Act and such amendments shall be carried out 

2 using amounts otherwise available for such purpose. 

Passed the House of Representatives September 16, 

2014. 

Attest: KAREN L. HAAS, 

Clerk. 


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