3.0.0 1670 2023-01-12T17:52:46Z 2023-01-12T17:52:46Z Senate S S 2007-06-20 110 ssas00 Armed Services Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2007-06-20T23:41:27Z Servicemembers' Healthcare Benefits and Rehabilitation Enhancement Act of 2007 110 1682 S 2007-06-22 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8303-8304) Identical bill CRS 2007-06-20 ssas00 Armed Services Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. IntroReferral 2007-06-20 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8077-8078) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2007-06-20 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S000663 Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME] Olympia Snowe R ME J. N Armed Forces and National Security Brain Congress Congressional reporting requirements Data banks Disability evaluation Disabled Government Operations and Politics Head injuries Health Hospital care Informed consent (Medical law) Iraq compilation Medical records Mental health Military discharges Military medicine Post-traumatic stress disorder Science, Technology, Communications Trauma care Veterans' medical care Veterans' rehabilitation War casualties Armed Forces and National Security 00 2007-06-20 Introduced in Senate 2007-10-01T19:49:09Z Servicemembers' Healthcare Benefits and Rehabilitation Enhancement Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Defense to: (1) assign a medical care manager and a caseworker to each member of the Armed Forces who is undergoing medical treatment, recuperation, or therapy, or is otherwise in a medical hold or holdover status, for an injury, illness, or disease incurred or aggravated while on active duty (recovering member); and (2) undertake efforts to improve the speed and efficiency of the Department of Defense (DOD) physical disability evaluation system.

Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit to the congressional defense and veterans' committees a plan to update the disability ratings schedule of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to reflect the effects on the modern workforce of mental health disorders, including traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Directs the Secretary of Defense to: (1) establish a system for the prioritization of processing the separation of members; (2) establish a medical record database to track and record the medical status of all members (and make such system accessible to the VA); (3) assess, both before and after, the mental health of each member who is deployed, or is expected to be deployed, to a combat theater; and (4) report, along with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, on plans to increase the role of private providers in the provision of rehabilitation to members and former members with TBI or PTSD when the VA is unable to provide such services.

Requires the: (1) Secretary of the military department concerned to notify the appropriate Members of Congress of the hospitalization of any recovering member evacuated from a theater of combat; and (2) recovering member to consent to such notification.

]]> Servicemembers' Healthcare Benefits and Rehabilitation Enhancement Act of 2007 Display Title Servicemembers' Healthcare Benefits and Rehabilitation Enhancement Act of 2007 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to improve the management of medical care for members of the Armed Forces, to improve the speed and efficiency of the physical disability evaluation system of the Department of Defense, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Servicemembers' Healthcare Benefits and Rehabilitation Enhancement Act of 2007 Introduced in Senate 2007-06-20T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s1670is/xml/BILLS-110s1670is.xml 2007-06-20 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.