Sec. 24. Provision of rehabilitative equipment and human-powered vehicles to certain disabled veterans
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Section 1714(a) of title 38, United States Code, is amended— by striking Any veteran and inserting
(1)Any veteran ; and by adding at the end the following new paragraph: The Secretary may furnish rehabilitative equipment to any veteran who is entitled to a prosthetic appliance. In carrying out subparagraph (A), the Secretary may modify non-rehabilitative equipment owned by a veteran only if the veteran elects for such modification. The Secretary shall annually submit to the Committees on Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Senate a report on rehabilitative equipment furnished to veterans under subparagraph (A). Each such report shall include, with respect to the year covered by the report— the number of veterans eligible to receive such rehabilitative equipment; the number of veterans who received such rehabilitative equipment; the number of veterans who elected to receive modified equipment pursuant to subparagraph (B); and any recommendations of the Secretary to improve furnishing veterans with rehabilitative equipment. In this paragraph, the term rehabilitative equipment means— rehabilitative equipment, including recreational sports equipment that provide an adaption or accommodation for the veteran, regardless of whether such equipment is intentionally designed to be adaptive equipment; and includes hand cycles, recumbent bicycles, medically adapted upright bicycles, and upright bicycles. . No additional funds are authorized to be appropriated to carry out the requirements of this section and the amendments made by this section. Such requirements shall be carried out using amounts otherwise authorized.