(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
TITLE I—STUDIES AND ASSESSMENTS OF DEPARTMENT OF 
VETERANS AFFAIRS HEALTH SERVICES FOR WOMEN VETERANS 
Sec. 101. Long-term study on health of women serving in Operation Iraqi Free-
dom and Operation Enduring Freedom. 
Sec. 102. Study of barriers for women veterans to health care from the depart-
ment of veterans affairs. 
Sec. 103. Comprehensive assessment of women’s health care programs of the 
department of veterans affairs. 
TITLE II—IMPROVEMENT AND EXPANSION OF HEALTH CARE 
PROGRAMS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS FOR 
WOMEN VETERANS 
Sec. 201. Improvement of sexual trauma care programs of the department of 
veterans affairs. 
Sec. 202. Dissemination of information on effective treatment, including evi-
dence-based treatments, for women veterans with post-trau-
matic stress disorder (ptsd). 
Sec. 203. Ensuring adequate provision of services for women veterans at De-
partment of Veterans Affairs vet centers. 
Sec. 204. Pilot program for child care for certain women veterans receiving 
health care from facilities of the department. 
Sec. 205. Pilot program for women veterans newly separated from service for 
counseling in retreat settings. 
Sec. 206. Addition of recently separated women veterans to serve on advisory 
committees. 
TITLE I—STUDIES AND ASSESS-
MENTS OF DEPARTMENT OF 
VETERANS AFFAIRS HEALTH 
SERVICES FOR WOMEN VET-
ERANS 
SEC. 101. LONG-TERM STUDY ON HEALTH OF WOMEN SERV-
ING IN OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM AND OP-
ERATION ENDURING FREEDOM. 
(a) PROSPECTIVE, POPULATION-BASED LONG-TERM 
STUDY.—The secretary of veterans affairs shall enter in 
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contracts with one or more qualified entities or organiza-
tions, in collaboration with the war-related injury and ill-
ness study centers of the veterans health administration, 
to conduct a long-term epidemiologic study on the health 
of women veterans who served on active duty in the com-
bat theatres of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation 
Enduring Freedom. the study shall include information on 
general health, mental health, reproductive health, and 
mortality of such women veterans 
(b) COHORT.—The study shall utilize a sufficiently 
large cohort of women, and shall include a minimum fol-
low-up period of ten years. 
(c) ARRANGEMENTS WITH
THE DEPARTMENT
OF 
DEFENSE.—The Secretary of Defense shall enter into ar-
rangements with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to 
carry out the requirements of this section. The Secretary 
of Defense shall make available to the Secretary of Vet-
erans Affairs health care data in the possession of the De-
partment of Defense with respect to such women veterans 
and shall provide access to the cohort of such women while 
serving in the armed forces. Such health care data shall 
include relevant pre-deployment health and health risk as-
sessments with respect to such women veterans. 
(d) ANNUAL REPORTS.—(1) Not later than 6 months 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
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of Veterans Affairs shall submit to Congress an initial re-
port on the status of the implementation of the section. 
(2) Not later one year after the date of the submittal 
to Congress of the initial report required under paragraph 
(1), and annually thereafter through 2018, the Secretary 
of Veterans Affairs shall submit to Congress report on the 
progress and results of the long-term study required under 
this section. The final report required under this para-
graph shall include a detailed description of the cumu-
lative findings of the study and shall include recommenda-
tions for such administrative and legislative action as the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs determines to be appro-
priate. 
(e) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Vet-
erans Affairs such sums as are necessary to carry out the 
provisions of this section. 
SEC. 102. STUDY OF BARRIERS FOR WOMEN VETERANS TO 
HEALTH CARE FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF 
VETERANS AFFAIRS. 
(a) STUDY.—The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall 
conduct a comprehensive assessment of the barriers to the 
provision of comprehensive health care by the Department 
of Veterans Affairs encountered by women who are vet-
erans, especially veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom and 
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Operation Enduring Freedom. The study should survey 
women veterans who seek or receive services from the 
healthcare system of the Department of Veterans Affairs 
as well as women veterans who do not seek or receive such 
services. 
(b) ELEMENTS.—(1) In conducting the study re-
quired by subsection (a), the Secretary of Veterans Affairs 
shall conduct research on the effects of the following: 
(A) Perceived stigma with respect to seeking 
mental health care services. 
(B) The effect of driving distance or availability 
of other forms of transportation to the nearest ap-
propriate facility of the Department on access to 
care. 
(C) Availability of child care. 
(D) Acceptability of integrated primary care, or 
with women’s health clinics, or both. 
(E) Comprehension of eligibility requirements 
for, and the scope of services available under, such 
health care. 
(F) The quality and nature of the reception by 
providers of such health care and their staff of the 
veteran. 
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(G) The perception of personal safety and com-
fort of women veterans in inpatient, outpatient, and 
behavioral health facilities of the Department. 
(H) Cultural sensitivity of health care providers 
and staff to issues that particularly affect women. 
(I) The effectiveness of outreach for health care 
services available to women veterans. 
(J) Such other significant barriers as the Sec-
retary of Veterans Affairs may identify. 
(2) The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall enter into 
contracts with qualified independent entities or organiza-
tions to carry out of the studies and research required 
under this section. 
(c) MANDATORY REVIEW OF DATA BY CERTAIN DI-
VISIONS WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT.—The Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs shall ensure that the head of each speci-
fied division of the Department (as defined in subsection 
(e)(2)) reviews the results of the study. The head of each 
specified division of the Department shall submit findings 
with respect to the study to the Under Secretary for 
Health and to other pertinent program offices within the 
Department of Veterans Affairs with duties relating to 
health care services for women veterans. 
(d) REPORTS.—(1) Not later than 6 months after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Vet-
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erans Affairs shall submit to Congress a report on the sta-
tus of the implementation of the section. 
(2) Not later than 30 months after the date of the 
enactment of this section, the Secretary of Veterans Af-
fairs shall submit to Congress a report on the study re-
quired under this section. The report shall include rec-
ommendations for such administrative and legislative ac-
tion as the Secretary of Veterans Affairs determines to 
be appropriate. The report shall also include the findings 
of the head of each specified division of the Department 
and of the Under Secretary for Health. 
(e) DEFINITION.—In this section— 
(1) the term ‘‘facility of the Department’’ has 
the meaning given that term in section 1701(3) of 
title 38, United States Code; and 
(2) the term ‘‘specified division of the Depart-
ment’’ means— 
(A) the Center for Women Veterans, estab-
lished under section 318 of title 38, United 
States Code; and 
(B) the Advisory Committee on Women 
Veterans, established under section 542 of title 
38, United States Code. 
(f) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Vet-
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erans Affairs such sums as are necessary to carry out the 
provisions of this section. 
SEC. 103. COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT OF WOMEN’S 
HEALTH CARE PROGRAMS OF THE DEPART-
MENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Veterans Affairs 
shall conduct a comprehensive assessment of all health 
care services and programs provided by the Department 
of Veterans Affairs for the health care needs of women 
veterans. Such comprehensive assessment shall include as-
sessments of specialized programs for women with post- 
traumatic stress disorder, for women who are homeless, 
for women who require care for substance abuse or mental 
illnesses, and for women who require pregnancy care. 
(b) SPECIFIC MATTERS STUDIED.—(1) The Sec-
retary of Veterans Affairs shall identify each of the fol-
lowing programs for women veterans provided by the De-
partment and determine whether effective health care 
services, including evidenced-based health care services, 
are readily available to and easily accessed by women vet-
erans: 
(A) Health promotion programs. 
(B) Disease prevention programs. 
(C) Health Care programs. 
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(2) In making such determination, the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs shall identify— 
(A) the frequency with which such services are 
available and provided, 
(B) the demographics of the women veterans 
population, 
(C) the sites where such services are available 
and provided, and 
(D) whether, and to what extent, waiting lists, 
geographic distance, and other factors obstruct the 
receipt of any of such services at any such site. 
(c) DEVELOPMENT OF PLAN TO IMPROVE SERV-
ICES.—(1) After conducting the assessments required by 
subsection (a), the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall de-
velop a program to improve the provision of health care 
services to women veterans and to project the future 
health care, including mental health care, needs of women 
serving in the combat theatres of Operation Iraqi Freedom 
and Operation Enduring Freedom. In developing the pro-
gram under this subsection, the Secretary of Veterans Af-
fairs shall list the types of services available under each 
program at each Medical Center of the Department and 
shall indicate projected resource and staffing requirements 
to meet the health care needs of women veterans. 
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(d) REPORT.—Not later than one year after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs shall submit to Congress a report on the assess-
ment conducted pursuant to this section. The report shall 
include recommendations for such administrative and leg-
islative action as the Secretary of Veterans Affairs deter-
mines to be appropriate. 
(e) GAO REPORT.—The Comptroller General of the 
United States shall review the report of the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs required under subsection (d). Not later 
than 6 months after the date on which the Secretary sub-
mits such report, the Comptroller General shall submit to 
Congress a report containing the findings of the Comp-
troller General with respect to the report of the Secretary 
and may include such recommendations for administrative 
or legislative actions as the Comptroller General deter-
mines to be appropriate. 
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TITLE 
II—IMPROVEMENT 
AND 
EXPANSION OF HEALTH CARE 
PROGRAMS OF THE DEPART-
MENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS 
FOR WOMEN VETERANS 
SEC. 201. IMPROVEMENT OF SEXUAL TRAUMA CARE PRO-
GRAMS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 
AFFAIRS. 
(a) IMPROVED TRAINING FOR HEALTH CARE PER-
SONNEL.—Section 1720D of title 38, United States Code, 
is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsection (d) as sub-
section (f); and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (c) the fol-
lowing new subsections: 
‘‘(d)(1)(A) The Secretary shall provide training for 
mental health professionals who provide counseling and 
care to veterans eligible for services under subsection (a). 
In carrying out such training, the Secretary shall ensure 
that all such mental health professionals have been trained 
in a consistent manner and that such training includes 
principles of evidence-based treatment and care for sexual 
trauma. 
‘‘(B) In the case of primary care providers who pro-
vide medical care for veterans who may be eligible for serv-
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ices under subsection (a), the Secretary shall ensure ap-
propriate training of such primary care providers in 
screening for and recognizing symptoms of sexual trauma 
and procedures for the prompt referral of such veterans 
to mental health professionals described in subparagraph 
(A). 
‘‘(2) Counseling, care, and services under subsection 
(a) should include the services of therapists qualified to 
provide counseling for sexual trauma and who dem-
onstrate a comprehension of the burden of exposure to 
both combat and sexual trauma inservicemembers of the 
Armed Forces. 
‘‘(e) The Secretary shall submit to Congress an an-
nual report on the counseling and care and services pro-
vided to veterans by reason of this section. Each report 
shall include data for the year involved with respect to the 
following: 
‘‘(1) The number of mental health professionals 
and primary care providers who received training 
under subsection (d). 
‘‘(2) The number of women veterans who re-
ceived counseling and care and services under sub-
section (a) from professionals and providers who re-
ceived training under subsection (d). 
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‘‘(3) The number of training programs oper-
ating by reason of subsection (d). 
‘‘(4) The number of trained full-time equivalent 
employees required in each facility of the Depart-
ment to meet the needs of veterans requiring treat-
ment and care for sexual trauma. 
‘‘(5) Such other information as the Secretary 
determines to be appropriate.’’. 
(b) ESTABLISHMENT OF STAFFING STANDARDS.— 
The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall establish staffing 
standards used at Department health-care facilities for 
full-time equivalent employees who are trained to provide 
treatment and care for sexual trauma to veterans. Such 
standards shall be established in a manner that ensures 
availability and accessibility of such treatment and care 
for all such veterans seeking such treatment and care at 
such facilities. 
SEC. 202. DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION ON EFFECTIVE 
TREATMENT, INCLUDING EVIDENCE-BASED 
TREATMENTS, FOR WOMEN VETERANS WITH 
POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD). 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Veterans Affairs 
shall develop a plan for the identification, development, 
and dissemination of effective treatments, including evi-
denced-based treatments, for post-traumatic stress dis-
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traumatic stress disorder through all facilities of the De-
partment. 
(2) The report shall include description of— 
(A) the methodology and results of the training 
of personnel involved in counseling and treatment of 
women veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress 
disorder; 
(B) the effectiveness of the treatments; and 
(C) any recommended improvements with re-
spect to access to and availability of the treatment 
services. 
(3) In preparing the report under paragraph (1), the 
Secretary shall also include any findings or recommenda-
tions of the Director of the Center for Women Veterans 
and the Under Secretary for Health with respect to the 
development and implementation of the strategy and the 
completion of the dissemination of such treatments, in-
cluding evidence-based treatments. 
SEC. 203. ENSURING ADEQUATE PROVISION OF SERVICES 
FOR WOMEN VETERANS AT DEPARTMENT OF 
VETERANS AFFAIRS VET CENTERS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Veterans Affairs 
shall conduct a study on centers for the provision of read-
justment counseling and related mental health services es-
tablished under section 1712A of title 38, United States 
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Code (in this section referred to as a ‘‘vet center’’). The 
Secretary shall determine whether such centers have the 
capacity to provide a sufficient scope and intensity of serv-
ices for women veterans. 
(b) ENSURING SUFFICIENT CAPACITY.—After con-
ducting the study under subsection (a), the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs shall develop a plan to ensure that ade-
quate counseling and mental health services shall be avail-
able at each vet center for women veterans, taking into 
account the specialized needs of such veterans. 
SEC. 204. PILOT PROGRAM FOR CHILD CARE FOR CERTAIN 
WOMEN 
VETERANS 
RECEIVING 
HEALTH 
CARE FROM FACILITIES OF THE DEPART-
MENT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—(1) Not later than six months 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
of Veterans Affairs shall carry out a pilot program under 
which, subject to paragraph (2), child care is provided, 
directly or indirectly, for qualified veterans. 
(2) Child care under the pilot program may only be 
provided for the period of time that the qualified vet-
eran— 
(A) receives the types of health care services re-
ferred to in paragraph (3) at a facility of the De-
partment; and 
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(B) requires to travel to and return from such 
facility for the receipt of such health care services. 
(3) In this section, the term ‘‘qualified veteran’’ 
means a veteran who is a woman, who is the primary care-
taker of a child or children, and who is receiving from 
the Department of Veterans Affairs one or more of the 
following health care services: 
(A) Regular mental health care services. 
(B) Intensive mental health care services. 
(C) Such other intensive health care services 
that the Secretary determines that the provision of 
child care would improve access to those health care 
services. 
(4) The Secretary shall carry out the pilot program 
in no fewer than three Veterans Integrated Service Net-
works (VISNs). 
(b) DURATION OF PILOT PROGRAM.—The pilot pro-
gram required by subsection (a) shall be carried out dur-
ing the two-year period beginning on the date of the com-
mencement of the pilot program. 
(c) POSSIBLE FORMS
OF CHILD CARE ASSIST-
ANCE.—Under the pilot program, the form of child care 
assistance provided to qualified veterans may include sti-
pends for the payment of child care offered by child care 
centers (either directly or through a voucher program), the 
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development of partnerships with private agencies, collabo-
ration with facilities or programs of other Federal depart-
ments or agencies, or the arrangement of after school care. 
(d) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Vet-
erans Affairs $1,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2008 and 
2009 to carry out the pilot program under this section. 
(e) REPORT.—Not later than six months after the 
completion of the pilot program, the Secretary shall sub-
mit to Congress a report on the pilot program and shall 
include recommendations for the continuation or expan-
sion of the pilot program. 
SEC. 205. PILOT PROGRAM FOR WOMEN VETERANS NEWLY 
SEPARATED 
FROM 
SERVICE 
FOR 
COUN-
SELING IN RETREAT SETTINGS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—(1) Not later than six months 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
of Veterans Affairs shall carry out a pilot program to 
evaluate the feasibility and advisability of providing coun-
seling and transition adjustment assistance for women vet-
erans who are newly separated from active duty service. 
(2) Under the pilot program, such counseling and as-
sistance shall be provided in a group retreat setting in 
which the counseling and assistance is made available for 
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consecutive periods of days for such duration as the Sec-
retary determines to be effective. 
(3) Participation in a pilot program under this sec-
tion is at the election of the woman veteran, and such elec-
tion may be made with or without a referral from a physi-
cian or mental health professional. 
(b) SITES.—The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall 
carry out the pilot program in no fewer than five sites. 
(c) DURATION OF PILOT PROGRAM.—The pilot pro-
gram required by subsection (a) shall be carried out dur-
ing the two-year period beginning on the date of the com-
mencement of the pilot program. 
(d) COUNSELING SERVICES.—Under the pilot pro-
gram, a newly separated woman veteran is eligible for a 
program of counseling tailored to her specific needs, based 
on her active duty experience and her family situation in 
order to assist with the transition from active duty to civil-
ian life at home. The program may include some or all 
of the following services: 
(1) Mental health counseling. 
(2) Family and marital counseling. 
(3) Role and relationship counseling. 
(4) Counseling for substance-use disorder. 
(5) Such other counseling services that the Sec-
retary of Veterans Affairs determines is necessary to 
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assist the veteran before final repatriation with her 
family. 
(e) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Vet-
erans Affairs $2,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2008 and 
2009 to carry out the pilot program under this section. 
(f) REPORT.—Not later than six months after the 
completion of the pilot program, the Secretary shall sub-
mit to Congress a report on the pilot program. The report 
shall include the following: 
(1) An assessment of the relative feasibility and 
advisability of the pilot program. 
(2) An assessment of the benefits of the pro-
gram, including any cost effectiveness associated 
with the program and any projected cost-savings at-
tributable to early intervention and transition assist-
ance under the pilot program. 
(3) Any recommendation for the continuation 
or expansion of the pilot program. 
SEC. 206. ADDITION OF RECENTLY SEPARATED WOMEN 
VETERANS TO SERVE ON ADVISORY COMMIT-
TEES. 
(a) ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON WOMEN VETERANS.— 
Subsection (a)(2)(a) of section 542 of title 38, United 
States Code, is amended— 
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(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of clause (ii); 
(2) by striking the period at the end of clause 
(iii) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by inserting after clause (iii) the following 
new clause: 
‘‘(iv) women who are recently sepa-
rated veterans.’’. 
(b) ADVISORY
COMMITTEE
ON
MINORITY
VET-
ERANS.—Subsection (a)(2)(a) of section 542 of title 38, 
United States Code, is amended 
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of clause (iii); 
(2) by striking the period at the end of clause 
(iv) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by inserting after clause (iv) the following 
new clause: 
‘‘(v) recently separated veterans who 
are minority group members.’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall first apply to appointments made on or 
after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
Æ 
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