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109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6319 
To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish centers to provide 
enhanced services to veterans with amputations and prosthetic devices, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 13, 2006 
Mr. LYNCH introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Veterans’ Affairs 
A BILL 
To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish 
centers to provide enhanced services to veterans with 
amputations and prosthetic devices, and for other pur-
poses. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Veterans Amputee and 
Rehabilitation Act of 2006’’. 
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SEC. 2. AMPUTATION AND PROSTHETIC REHABILITATION 
CENTERS IN DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AF-
FAIRS. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs shall establish in the Veterans Health Administra-
tion not less than five centers to provide enhanced reha-
bilitation services to veterans who have suffered amputa-
tions or who are equipped with prosthetic devices. Each 
such center shall be established at a health-care facility 
of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Each such center 
shall be known as an ‘‘Amputation and Prosthetic Reha-
bilitation Center’’. 
(b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of the centers estab-
lished pursuant to this section are— 
(1) to provide regional clinical facilities of the 
Department of Veterans Affairs with special exper-
tise in prosthetics, rehabilitation with the use of 
prosthetics, treatment, and coordination of care for 
veterans who have suffered an amputation of any 
functional part of the body due to a service-con-
nected disability; 
(2) to provide state-of-the art prosthetic limb 
evaluations and fabrications for such veterans; and 
(3) to provide information and supportive serv-
ices to all facilities of the Department of Veterans 
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Affairs concerning the care and treatment of such 
veterans who are equipped with a prosthetic device. 
(c) GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION.—In order to estab-
lish such centers so as to be accessible to as many veterans 
as possible in the United States, the Secretary shall estab-
lish at least one such center within each of the following 
geographic services areas of the Veterans Health Adminis-
tration: Veterans Integrated Service Network 1 (New 
England), Veterans Integrated Service Network 8 (Flor-
ida), Veterans Integrated Service Network 17 (Texas), 
Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 (Southern Cali-
fornia), and Veterans Integrated Service Network 23 
(Midwest). 
(d) STAFF AND RESOURCES.—The Secretary shall 
ensure that each center established pursuant to this sec-
tion includes the following: 
(1) A modern, well-equipped, and appropriately 
certified laboratory facility capable of providing 
state-of-the-art and complex prosthetic devices to all 
veterans with an amputation due to a service-con-
nected disability. 
(2) Certified and experienced prosthetists, in-
cluding prosthetists with certifications in new fab-
rication techniques. 
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(3) An accredited Physical Medicine and Reha-
bilitation service with staff who are well-trained in 
current prosthetic services and emerging trends for 
treatment of amputations. 
(4) A modern gait laboratory, permanently lo-
cated within the center. 
(e) AVAILABILITY
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Amounts 
appropriated pursuant to this section shall remain avail-
able until expended. 
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