To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for unlimited eligibility for health care for mental illnesses for veterans of combat service during certain periods of hostilities and war.

United States115th CongressHR-5314House of Representatives
Updated: Mar 15, 2018

Summary

Veterans Mental Health Accessibility Act This bill makes veterans who served on active duty in a theater of combat operations eligible for hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care for any mental illness through the Department of Veterans Affairs, notwithstanding insufficient medical evidence to conclude that the mental illness is attributable to such service.

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Timeline

  1. Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

    House of Representatives

  2. Introduced in House

  3. Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

    House of Representatives

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