119-HR1336

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119th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 1336

1. Short title
2. Pilot program to furnish hyperbaric oxygen therapy to a veteran with traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder

1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the "Veterans National Traumatic Brain Injury Treatment Act".

2. Pilot program to furnish hyperbaric oxygen therapy to a veteran with traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder

(a) Establishment - The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall implement a pilot program to furnish HBOT to a veteran who has a traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder through a health care provider described in section 1703(c)(5) of title 38, United States Code.

(b) Locations - The Secretary shall select three Veterans Integrated Service Networks in which to operate the pilot program.

(c) Funding

(1) - There is in the general fund of the Treasury a fund to be known as the "VA HBOT Fund" (in this Act referred to as the "Fund").

(2) - The sole source of monies for the Fund shall be donations received by the Secretary for express purposes of the Fund.

(3) - Amounts in the Fund shall be available to the Secretary without fiscal year limitation to pay for HBOT under subsection (a).

(4) - The Fund shall terminate on the termination date under subsection (d).

(d) Termination - The pilot program shall terminate on the day that is five years after the date of the enactment of this Act.

(e) HBOT defined - In this Act, the term "HBOT" means hyperbaric oxygen therapy with a medical device—

(1) - approved by the Food and Drug Administration; or

(2) - issued an investigational device exemption by the Food and Drug Administration.