Chiropractic Care Available to All Veterans Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-422
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2013-02-28
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Alternative treatments

Health care coverage and access

Health facilities and institutions

Health promotion and preventive care

Medical tests and diagnostic methods

Musculoskeletal and skin diseases

Veterans' medical care
Latest action: action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 113-203.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-02-28
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>Chiropractic Care Available to All Veterans Act of 2013 - 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, 2014, and (2) all medical centers by December 31, 2016.</p> <p>Includes chiropractic examinations and services within required VA medical, rehabilitative, and preventive health care services.</p>

tv_txt: II 113th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 422 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES February 28, 2013 Mr. Blumenthal (for himself, Mr. Moran , Mr. Brown , Mr. Grassley , Mr. Harkin , Mr. Schumer , Mr. Tester , and Mr. Whitehouse ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs 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.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Chiropractic Care Available to All Veterans Act of 2013 . 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 ; 115 Stat. 2459; 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, 2014, and at all medical centers by not later than December 31, 2016. . 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; .