Healing Our Heroes Act

Bill: 113-hr-3958
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Broun, Paul C. [R-GA-10]
Introduced: 2014-01-29
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Housing for the elderly and disabled

Neurological disorders

Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Veterans' medical care
Latest action: action_date: 2014-02-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2014-01-29
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Healing Our Heroes Act - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for FY2008 to extend for one year the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) pilot program to assess the effectiveness of providing assisted living services to veterans with a traumatic brain injury to enhance the rehabilitation, quality of life, and community integration of such veterans.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 3958 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 29, 2014 Mr. Broun of Georgia introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs A BILL To provide for a one-year extension of the Department of Veterans Affairs pilot program on assisted living services for veterans with traumatic brain injury.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Healing Our Heroes Act . 2. One-year extension of Department of Veterans Affairs pilot program on assisted living services for veterans with traumatic brain injury Section 1705 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 ( Public Law 110–181 ; 122 Stat. 491; 38 U.S.C. 1710C note) is amended— (1) in subsection (a), by striking five-year pilot program and inserting six-year pilot program ; and (2) in subsection (e)(1), by striking the completion of the pilot program and inserting the date on which the pilot program has been carried out for five years .