The "Get Justice-Involved Veterans BACK HOME Act" seeks to enhance support for incarcerated veterans through several key initiatives. It establishes a pilot program , administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), to furnish mental health care to these veterans, with a specific focus on those with service-connected post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury (TBI), or military sexual trauma. This program will operate in at least five diverse correctional facilities, utilizing VA health care providers and offering services like telemental health or mobile mental health units without copayments. To create a more supportive environment, the bill mandates that the Director of the Bureau of Prisons establish dedicated wards or housing units for incarcerated veterans in federal correctional institutions, wherever feasible. These units are designed to foster discipline and structure, facilitating more effective mental health treatment, peer support, and rehabilitation. Correctional staff in these units will receive specialized training, and resources and programming will be tailored to veterans' needs, in collaboration with local VA facilities. Furthermore, the legislation addresses financial stability for veterans post-incarceration. It requires the VA to ensure the automatic resumption of compensation and dependency and indemnity compensation payments for individuals whose benefits were interrupted due to felony incarceration, effective immediately upon their release. Finally, the bill amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to mandate the collection and analysis of comprehensive information on incarcerated veterans and requires annual reports to Congress detailing this data.
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
The "Get Justice-Involved Veterans BACK HOME Act" seeks to enhance support for incarcerated veterans through several key initiatives. It establishes a pilot program , administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), to furnish mental health care to these veterans, with a specific focus on those with service-connected post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury (TBI), or military sexual trauma. This program will operate in at least five diverse correctional facilities, utilizing VA health care providers and offering services like telemental health or mobile mental health units without copayments. To create a more supportive environment, the bill mandates that the Director of the Bureau of Prisons establish dedicated wards or housing units for incarcerated veterans in federal correctional institutions, wherever feasible. These units are designed to foster discipline and structure, facilitating more effective mental health treatment, peer support, and rehabilitation. Correctional staff in these units will receive specialized training, and resources and programming will be tailored to veterans' needs, in collaboration with local VA facilities. Furthermore, the legislation addresses financial stability for veterans post-incarceration. It requires the VA to ensure the automatic resumption of compensation and dependency and indemnity compensation payments for individuals whose benefits were interrupted due to felony incarceration, effective immediately upon their release. Finally, the bill amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to mandate the collection and analysis of comprehensive information on incarcerated veterans and requires annual reports to Congress detailing this data.
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.