A bill to amend the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Programs Enhancement Act of 2001 and title 38, United States Code, to require the provision of chiropractic care and services to veterans at all Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers and to expand access to such care and services, and for other purposes.

United States115th CongressS-609Senate
Updated: May 17, 2017

Summary

Chiropractic Care Available to All Veterans Act of 2017 This bill amends the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Programs Enhancement Act of 2001 to require a program under which the Secretary of Veterans Affairs provides chiropractic care and services to veterans through Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers and clinics to be carried out at: (1) no fewer than 75 medical centers by December 31, 2018, and (2) all medical centers by December 31, 2020. Chiropractic examinations and services are included within required VA medical, rehabilitative, and preventive health care services.

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Timeline

  1. Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

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  2. Introduced in Senate

  3. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 115-299.

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