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Input: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''Heroes at Home Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. PROTOCOL FOR ASSESSMENT AND DOCUMENTATION OF COGNITIVE
FUNCTIONING OF EACH DEPLOYED MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES.

(a) Protocol Required.--The Secretary of Defense shall establish a
protocol for the assessment and documentation of the cognitive
(including memory) functioning of each member of the Armed Forces
before each such member is deployed in Operation Enduring Freedom or
Operation Iraqi Freedom, to facilitate the assessment of the cognitive
(including memory) functioning of each such member upon returning from
such deployment.
(b) Diagnosis of Traumatic Brain Injury and Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary shall ensure that the
protocol required by subsection (a) provides appropriate
mechanisms to permit the differential diagnosis of traumatic
brain injury (TBI) and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in
members of the Armed Forces who return from deployment in
Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom.
(2) Additional purposes.--Except as provided in subsection
(d), the Secretary may use the protocol for such other purposes
as the Secretary considers appropriate.
(c) Neurocognitive Assessments.--
(1) In general.--The protocol required by subsection (a)
shall include the administration of computer-based
neurocognitive assessments to members of the Armed Forces.
(2) Frequency.--The assessments required by paragraph (1)
shall be administered at least once to each member of the Armed
Forces--
(A) before deploying to Operation Enduring Freedom
or Operation Iraqi Freedom; and
(B) upon returning from such deployment.
(3) Development of assessment.--In developing the computer-
based assessment required by paragraph (1), the Secretary may
use or adopt a current commercial product or develop a new
computer-based assessment.
(4) Format of assessment.--The format of the assessments
required by paragraph (1) shall be the same for each
administration described in paragraph (2).
(d) Prohibition on Use of Protocol To Determine Deployment
Readiness.--The Secretary may not use the result of any assessment that
is part of the protocol required by subsection (a) to determine the
deployment readiness of any member of the Armed Forces.
(e) Availability of Medical Data.--The Secretary shall make
available such medical data on the cognitive (including memory)
functioning of members of the Armed Forces who are deployed in
Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom that is obtained
from the protocol required by subsection (a) as the Secretary considers
appropriate to--
(1) combat medics and other Department of Defense personnel
who provide medical services to such members; and
(2) such entities as the Secretary considers appropriate.
(f) Report.--Not later than one year after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report
on the implementation of this section.
(g) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be
appropriated to the Department of Defense to carry out this section
amounts as follows:
(1) For fiscal year 2008, $3,750,000.
(2) For fiscal years 2009 through 2012, such sums as may be
necessary.

SEC. 3. TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION PROGRAM FOR FAMILY CAREGIVER
PERSONAL CARE ATTENDANTS FOR VETERANS AND MEMBERS OF THE
ARMED FORCES WITH TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY.

(a) Program on Training and Certification of Family Caregiver
Personal Care Attendants.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall
establish a program on training and certification of family caregivers
of veterans and members of the Armed Forces with traumatic brain injury
as personal care attendants of such veterans and members.
(b) Location.--The program required by subsection (a) shall be
located in each of the polytrauma centers of the Department of Veterans
Affairs designated as a Tier I polytrauma center.
(c) Training Curricula.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall,
in collaboration with the Secretary of Defense, develop
curricula for the training of personal care attendants
described in subsection (a). Such curricula shall incorporate
applicable standards and protocols utilized by certification
programs of national brain injury care specialist
organizations.
(2) Use of existing curricula.--In developing the curricula
required by paragraph (1), the Secretary of Veterans Affairs
shall, to the extent practicable, utilize and expand upon
training curricula developed pursuant to section 744(b) of the
John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
2007 (Public Law 109-364; 120 Stat. 2308).
(d) Program Participation.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall
determine the eligibility of a family member of a veteran or
member of the Armed Forces for participation in the program
required by subsection (a).
(2) Basis for determination.--A determination made under
paragraph (1) shall be based on the clinical needs of the
veteran or member of the Armed Forces concerned, as determined
by the physician of such veteran or member.
(e) Eligibility for Compensation.--A family caregiver of a veteran
or member of the Armed Forces who receives certification as a personal
care attendant under this section shall be eligible for compensation
from the Department of Veterans Affairs for care provided to such
veteran or member.
(f) Costs of Training.--
(1) Training of families of veterans.--Any costs of
training provided under the program under this section for
family members of veterans shall be borne by the Secretary of
Veterans Affairs.
(2) Training of families of members of the armed forces.--
The Secretary of Defense shall reimburse the Secretary of
Veterans Affairs for any costs of training provided under the
program under this section for family members of members of the
Armed Forces. Amounts for such reimbursement shall be derived
from amounts available for Defense Health Program for the
TRICARE program.
(g) Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be construed to
require or permit the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to deny
reimbursement for health care services provided to a veteran with a
brain injury to a personal care attendant who is not a family member of
such veteran.

SEC. 4. TELEHEALTH AND TELEMENTAL HEALTH SERVICES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF
DEFENSE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.

(a) Telehealth and Telemental Health Demonstration Project.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary
of Veterans Affairs shall jointly establish a demonstration
project to assess the feasibility and advisability of using
telehealth technology to assess cognitive (including memory)
functioning of members and former members of the Armed Forces
who have sustained head trauma, in order to improve the
diagnosis and treatment of traumatic brain injury.
(2) Location.--
(A) In general.--The Secretary of Defense and the
Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall carry out the
demonstration project required by paragraph (1) at one
or more locations selected by the Secretaries for
purposes of the demonstration project.
(B) Priority for rural areas.--In selecting
locations to carry out the demonstration project
required by paragraph (1), the Secretary of Defense and
the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall give priority
to locations that would provide service in a rural
area.
(3) Requirements.--The demonstration project required by
paragraph (1) shall include the following:
(A) The use of telehealth technology to assess the
cognitive (including memory) functioning of a member or
former member of the Armed Forces, including the
following:
(i) Obtaining information regarding the
nature of any brain injury incurred by such
member or former member.
(ii) Assessing any symptoms of traumatic
brain injury in such member or former member.
(B) The use of telehealth technology to
rehabilitate members or former members of the Armed
Forces who have traumatic brain injury, and the use, to
the extent practicable, of applicable standards and
protocols used by certification programs of national
brain injury care specialist organizations in order to
assess progress in such rehabilitation.
(C) The use of telehealth technology to disseminate
education material to members and former members of the
Armed Forces and the family members of such members on
techniques, strategies, and skills for caring for and
assisting such members, and to the extend practicable,
such education materials shall incorporate training
curricula developed pursuant to section 744(b) of the
John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 2007 (Public Law 109-364; 120 Stat. 2308).
(4) Use of proven technologies.--Any assessment
administered as a part of the demonstration project required by
paragraph (1) shall incorporate telemental health technology
that has proven effective in the diagnosis and treatment of
mental health conditions associated with traumatic brain
injury.
(5) Administration.--
(A) In general.--The demonstration project required
by paragraph (1) shall be administered under the joint
incentives program and carried out pursuant to section
8111(d) of title 38, United States Code.
(B) Funding.--Amounts to carry out the
demonstration project shall be derived from amounts in
the DOD-VA Health Care Sharing Incentive Fund
established under paragraph (2) of such section.
(6) Report.--
(A) In general.--The Secretary of Defense and the
Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall jointly submit to
Congress a report on the demonstration project required
by paragraph (1).
(B) Submission with annual joint report.--The
report required by subparagraph (A) shall be submitted
to Congress at the same time as the annual joint report
required by section 8111(f) of title 38, United States
Code, for the fiscal year following the fiscal year of
the date of the enactment of this Act.
(b) Ongoing Study on Telehealth and Telemental Health Services.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary
of Veterans Affairs shall, through the Joint Executive Council
(JEC) of the Department of Defense and the Department of
Veterans Affairs, conduct an ongoing study of all matters
relating to the telehealth and telemental health services of
the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans
Affairs.
(2) Matters studied.--The matters studied under paragraph
(1) shall include the following:
(A) The number of members and former members of the
Armed Forces who have used telehealth or telemental
health services of the Department of Defense or the
Department of Veterans Affairs.
(B) The extent to which members of the National
Guard and the Reserves are utilizing telehealth or
telemental health services of the Department of Defense
or the Department of Veterans Affairs.
(C) The ways in which the Department of Defense and
the Department of Veterans Affairs can improve the
integration of telehealth and telemental health
services with clinical medicine.
(D) The extent to which telehealth and telemental
health services of the Department of Defense and the
Department of Veterans Affairs are provided in rural
settings and through community-based outpatient clinics
(CBOCs).
(E) Best practices of civilian mental health
providers and facilities with respect to the provision
of telehealth and telemental health services, including
how such practices can be adopted to improve telehealth
and telemental health services of the Department of
Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
(F) The feasability and advisability of partnering
with civilian mental health facilities to provide
telehealth and telemental health services to members
and former members of the Armed Forces.
(3) Annual reports.--Not later than one year after the date
of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the
Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs
shall jointly submit to Congress a report on the findings of
the Joint Executive Counsel under this subsection during the
preceding year.

SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS.

In this Act:
(1) The term ''national brain injury care specialist
organization'' means a national organization or association
with demonstrated experience in providing training, education,
and technical assistance in the provision of care for
individuals with brain injury.
(2) The term ''neurocognitive'' means of, relating to, or
involving the central nervous system and cognitive or
information processing abilities (thinking, memory, and
reasoning), as well as sensory processing (sight, hearing,
touch, taste, and smell), and communication (expression and
understanding).
(3) The term ''traumatic brain injury'' means an acquired
injury to the brain, including brain injuries caused by anoxia
due to trauma and such other injuries as the Secretary
considers appropriate, except that such term excludes brain
dysfunction caused by--
(A) congenital or degenerative disorders; or
(B) birth trauma.
Output:
Heroes at Home Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish a protocol for the assessment and documentation of the cognitive (including memory) functioning of each member of the Armed Forces deployed in Operations Enduring Freedom or Iraqi Freedom before such deployment in order to facilitate their cognitive functioning upon their return.

Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a program on training and certification of family caregivers of veterans and members with traumatic brain injury.

Authorizes such Secretaries to jointly: (1) establish a demonstration project to assess the feasibility and advisability of using telehealth technology to assess cognitive functioning of members who have sustained head trauma in order to improve their diagnosis and treatment; and (2) conduct an ongoing study of all matters relating to the telehealth and telemental health services of the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, respectively.