Title: Chiropractic Care Available to All Veterans Act of 2017
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Chiropractic Care Available to All Veterans Act of 2017
This bill amends the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Programs Enhancement Act of 2001 to require a program under which the Secretary of Veterans Affairs provides chiropractic care and services to veterans through Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers and clinics to be carried out at: (1) no fewer than 75 medical centers by December 31, 2018, and (2) all medical centers by December 31, 2020.
Chiropractic examinations and services are included within required VA medical, rehabilitative, and preventive health care services.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 609 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 609

   To amend the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Programs 
 Enhancement Act of 2001 and title 38, United States Code, to require 
  the provision of chiropractic care and services to veterans at all 
Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers and to expand access to 
            such care and services, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 13, 2017

 Mr. Moran (for himself, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Grassley, Ms. Murkowski, 
   Mr. Whitehouse, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Brown, Mr. Tester, and Mr. King) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Programs 
 Enhancement Act of 2001 and title 38, United States Code, to require 
  the provision of chiropractic care and services to veterans at all 
Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers and to expand access to 
            such care and services, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Chiropractic Care Available to All 
Veterans Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. PROGRAM FOR PROVISION OF CHIROPRACTIC CARE AND SERVICES TO 
              VETERANS.

    Section 204(c) of the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care 
Programs Enhancement Act of 2001 (Public Law 107-135; 38 U.S.C. 1710 
note) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(1)'' before ``The program''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(2) The program shall be carried out at not fewer than 75 medical 
centers by not later than December 31, 2018, and at all medical centers 
by not later than December 31, 2020.''.

SEC. 3. EXPANDED CHIROPRACTOR SERVICES AVAILABLE TO VETERANS.

    (a) Medical Services.--Paragraph (6) of section 1701 of title 38, 
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraph:
                    ``(H) Chiropractic services.''.
    (b) Rehabilitative Services.--Paragraph (8) of such section is 
amended by inserting ``chiropractic,'' after ``counseling,''.
    (c) Preventive Health Services.--Paragraph (9) of such section is 
amended--
            (1) by redesignating subparagraphs (F) through (K) as 
        subparagraphs (G) through (L), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after subparagraph (E) the following new 
        subparagraph (F):
                    ``(F) periodic and preventive chiropractic 
                examinations and services;''.
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