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111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4041 
To authorize certain improvements in the Federal Recovery Coordinator 
Program, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 6, 2009 
Mr. BARROW introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 
A BILL 
To authorize certain improvements in the Federal Recovery 
Coordinator Program, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) Americans owe their freedom and livelihood 
to the sacrifices that have been made by brave vet-
erans. 
(2) The United States, therefore, has an obliga-
tion to provide veterans with adequate care and re-
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sources to make their transition into civilian life as 
smooth as possible. 
(3) The Department of Defense and the De-
partment of Veterans Affairs offer many high qual-
ity services to help veterans in this transition, but 
there has not been a good mechanism for providing 
coordinated medical care for wounded warriors (vet-
erans injured in the line of duty). 
(4) The Dole-Shalala Commission has rec-
ommended that a nationwide Federal Recovery Co-
ordinator Program be implemented to help expand 
partnerships and collaborations and establish new 
relationships for the benefit of members of the 
Armed Forces returning from serving in support of 
Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring 
Freedom and their families. 
(5) The Federal Recovery Coordinator Program 
has been implemented successfully at the city level 
in one city in the country and the existing program 
should serve as the model for national implementa-
tion. 
SEC. 2. IMPROVEMENT OF FEDERAL RECOVERY COORDI-
NATOR PROGRAM. 
(a) PROVISION OF COLLABORATIVE RECOVERY CO-
ORDINATOR TRAINING.—The Secretary of Veterans Af-
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fairs shall provide collaborative recovery coordinator train-
ing at a qualified nursing or medical school selected by 
the Secretary (hereinafter in this section referred to as 
the ‘‘qualified nursing or medical school’’), to lead system-
atic evidence review of care coordination and consensus 
conference to build the model on evidence-based guide-
lines. 
(b) 
LITERATURE
REVIEW; 
CONSENSUS
CON-
FERENCE.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The qualified nursing or 
medical school is hereby designated to lead literature 
review and development of evidence-based guidelines 
for recovery coordination, development of training 
modules for care coordination and software that is 
compatible with Department of Veterans Affairs sys-
tems for recovery coordination. The qualified nurs-
ing or medical school is hereby designated to lead a 
consensus conference on evidence-based care coordi-
nation. 
(2) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.— 
There is authorized to be appropriated $1,200,000 
to carry out this subsection. 
(c) CARE
COORDINATION
SOFTWARE
DEVELOP-
MENT.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs shall— 
(A) enter into a subcontractor with an ap-
propriate entity for the development of care co-
ordination software; 
(B) carry out a conference for recovery co-
ordinator tool validation; and 
(C) carry out a software pilot program. 
(2) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.— 
There is authorized to be appropriated $1,200,000 
to carry out this subsection. 
(d) RECOVERY COORDINATOR TRAINING.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The qualified nursing or 
medical school is authorized to train 45 recovery co-
ordinators. 
(2) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—For 
each of fiscal years 2010, 2011, and 2012, there is 
authorized to be appropriated $500,000 for training 
authorized under this subsection. 
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