Sec. 313. Extension and modification of pilot program on assisted living services for veterans with traumatic brain injury
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Subsection
(a)of section 1705 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 ( Public Law 110–181 ; 38 U.S.C. 1710C note) is amended by striking a five-year and inserting an eight-year . Subsection
(b)of such section is amended— by redesignating paragraph
(2)as paragraph (3); and by striking paragraph
(1)and inserting the following new paragraphs: The pilot program shall be carried out at locations selected by the Secretary for purposes of the pilot program. Of the locations selected under paragraph (1), at least one location shall be in each health care region of the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs that contains a polytrauma center of the Department of Veterans Affairs. . Subsection
(e)of such section is amended to read as follows: Not later than two years after the date of the enactment of the Comprehensive Veterans Health and Benefits and Military Retirement Pay Restoration Act of 2014 , and not later than September 30 each year thereafter until 2018, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the House of Representatives a report on the pilot program. Each report submitted under subparagraph
(A)shall include the following: The number of individuals that participated in the pilot program during the year preceding the submission of the report. The number of individuals that successfully completed the pilot program during the year preceding the submission of the report. The degree to which pilot program participants and family members of pilot program participants were satisfied with the pilot program. The interim findings and conclusions of the Secretary with respect to the success of the pilot program and recommendations for improvement. Not later than 60 days after the completion of the pilot program, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Representatives a final report on the pilot program. The final report required by subparagraph
(A)shall include the following: A description of the pilot program. An assessment of the utility of the activities under the pilot program in enhancing the rehabilitation, quality of life, and community reintegration of veterans with traumatic brain injury, including complex mild traumatic brain injury. Such recommendations as the Secretary considers appropriate regarding improving the pilot program. . Such section is further amended— in the section heading, by striking and inserting assisted living ; community-based brain injury residential rehabilitative care in subsection (c), in the subsection heading, by striking and inserting assisted living ; community-based brain injury residential rehabilitative care by striking assisted living each place it appears, and inserting community-based brain injury rehabilitative care ; and in subsection (f)(1), by striking and personal care and inserting rehabilitation, and personal care . Subsection (f)(3) of such section is amended— in subparagraph (C), by striking ; and and inserting a semicolon; in subparagraph (D), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: has a traumatic brain injury that is classified as complex-mild to severe. . There is authorized to be appropriated for the Department of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2015 $46,000,000 to carry out the pilot program under section 1705 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 ( Public Law 110–181 ; 38 U.S.C. 1710C note), as amended by this section. The amount so authorized to be appropriated shall be available for obligation for the three-year period beginning on the date that is one year after the date of the enactment of this Act. The amendments made by this section shall take effect on October 1, 2014.
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Sec. 313
Extension and modification of pilot program on assisted living services for veterans with traumatic brain injury
Pub. L.Pub. L. 110-181
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