To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide certain veterans with nonarticulating trailers in furnishing adaptive equipment to veterans.

Bill: 116-hr-5447
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2019-12-17
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Motor vehicles

Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Latest action: action_date: 2019-12-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-12-17
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide non-articulating trailers (adaptive equipment) to veterans with specified disabilities or diseases incurred or aggravated due to their military service.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5447 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 17, 2019 Mr. Sensenbrenner (for himself, Mr. Gallego , and Mr. Case ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs A BILL To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide certain veterans with nonarticulating trailers in furnishing adaptive equipment to veterans.

1. Provision of nonarticulating trailers as adaptive equipment Section 3901(2) of title 38, United States Code, is amended— (1) by striking and special and inserting special ; and (2) by striking conveyance. and inserting conveyance, and nonarticulating trailers solely designed to transport powered wheelchairs, powered scooters, or other similar mobility devices. .