able commuting distance of the member’s permanent 
duty station. 
(2) PAYMENT OF PER DIEM.—A member who is 
away from the member’s permanent station may be 
paid a per diem in lieu of subsistence in an amount 
not more than the amount to which the member 
would be entitled if the member were performing 
travel in connection with a temporary duty assign-
ment. 
(3) GIFT RULE WAIVER.—Notwithstanding any 
rule of any department or agency with respect to 
ethics or the receipt of gifts, any assistance provided 
to a member of the Armed Forces with a service- 
connected injury or disability for travel, meals, or 
entertainment incidental to receiving treatment or 
study protocol under this Act, or for the provision 
of such treatment or study protocol, shall not be 
subject to or covered by any such rule. 
(i) RETALIATION PROHIBITED.—No retaliation may 
be made against any member of the Armed Forces or vet-
eran who receives treatment or study protocol as part of 
a registered institutional review board study carried out 
by a civilian health care practitioner. 
(j) TREATMENT OF UNIVERSITY AND NATIONALLY 
ACCREDITED
INSTITUTIONAL
REVIEW
BOARDS.—For 
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purposes of this Act, a university-affiliated or nationally 
accredited institutional review board shall be treated in the 
same manner as a Government institutional review board. 
(k) MEMORANDA OF UNDERSTANDING.—The Sec-
retary of Defense and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs 
shall seek to expeditiously enter into memoranda of under-
standing with civilian institutional review boards described 
in subsection (j) for the purpose of providing for members 
of the Armed Forces and veterans to receive treatment 
carried out by civilian health care practitioners under a 
treatment or study protocol approved by and under the 
oversight of civilian institutional review boards that would 
qualify for payment under this Act. 
(l) OUTREACH REQUIRED.— 
(1) OUTREACH TO VETERANS.—The Secretary 
of Veterans Affairs shall notify each veteran with a 
service-connected injury or disability of the oppor-
tunity to receive treatment or study protocol pursu-
ant to this Act. 
(2) OUTREACH TO MEMBERS OF THE ARMED 
FORCES.—The Secretary of Defense shall notify 
each member of the Armed Forces with a service- 
connected injury or disability of the opportunity to 
receive treatment or study protocol pursuant to this 
Act. 
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(m) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 30 days 
after the last day of each fiscal year during which the Sec-
retary of Defense and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs 
are authorized to make payments under this Act, the Sec-
retaries shall jointly submit to Congress an annual report 
on the implementation of this Act. Such report shall in-
clude each of the following for that fiscal year: 
(1) The number of individuals for whom the 
Secretary has provided payments under this Act. 
(2) The condition for which each such indi-
vidual receives treatment for which payment is pro-
vided under this Act and the success rate of each 
such treatment. 
(3) Treatment methods that are used by enti-
ties receiving payment provided under this Act and 
the respective rate of success of each such method. 
(4) The recommendations of the Secretaries 
with respect to the integration of treatment methods 
for which payment is provided under this Act into 
facilities of the Department of Defense and Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs. 
(n) TERMINATION.—The authority to make a pay-
ment under this Act shall terminate on the date that is 
five years after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
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(o) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Act 
$10,000,000 for each fiscal year during which the Sec-
retary of Veterans Affairs and the Secretary of Defense 
are authorized to make payments under this Act. 
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