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107TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 107-242
DISABLED VETERANS SERVICE DOG AND HEALTH CARE
IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 2001
OCTOBER 16, 2001.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, from the Committee on Veterans' Affairs,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 2792]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Veterans' Affairs, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 2792) to amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize
the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make service dogs available to
disabled veterans and to make various other improvements in
health care benefits provided by the Department of Veterans Af-
fairs, and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports
favorably thereon with an amendment and recommends that the
bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) SHORT TITLE.-This Act may be cited as the Disabled Veterans Service Dog
and Health Care Improvement Act of 2001.
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.-The table of contents of this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
TITLE I-VETERANS HEALTH CARE IMPROVEMENT
Sec. 101. Authorization for Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide service dogs for disabled veterans.
Sec. 102. Maintenance of capacity for specialized treatment and rehabilitative needs of disabled veterans.
Sec. 103. Threshold for veterans health care eligibility means test to reflect locality cost-of-living variations.
Sec. 104. Assessment and report on special telephone services for veterans.
Sec. 105. Recodification of bereavement counseling authority and certain other health-related authorities.
Sec. 106. Extension of expiring collections authorities.
TITLE II-CHIROPRACTIC SERVICES PROGRAM
Sec. 201. Chiropractic Service established in the Veterans Health Administration.
Sec. 202. Availability of chiropractic care to veterans.
Sec. 203. Chiropractic providers.
Sec. 204. Scope of services; enrollment.
Sec. 205. Training and information.
Sec. 206. Advisory committee.
Sec. 207. Implementation report.
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