2014-02-03 Introduced in Senate Comprehensive Veterans Health and Benefits and Military Retirement Pay Restoration Act of 2014 - Amends federal veterans provisions to revise or add provisions concerning medical services and other benefits provided to veterans and/or their dependents through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) relating to the following areas:

• survivor and dependent matters, including benefits for children of certain veterans born with spina bifida;
• education matters, including the approval of courses for purposes of the All-Volunteer Force and the Post-9/11 Educational Assistance programs;
• the expansion and extension of certain health care benefits, including immunizations, chiropractic care, treatment for traumatic brain injury, and wellness promotion;
• health care administration, including extension of the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Professional Scholarship Program, and
• complementary and alternative medicine;
• mental health care, including an education program and peer support program for family members and caregivers of veterans with mental health disorders;
• dental care eligibility and expansion, including a program of education to promote dental health in veterans;
• health care related to sexual trauma, including appropriate counseling and treatment and a screening mechanism to detect incidents of domestic abuse;
• reproductive treatment and services, including fertility counseling as well as adoption assistance for severely wounded veterans;
• major medical facility leases;
• veterans' employment training and related services;
• veterans' employment, including within the federal government and as first responders;
• career transition services;
• employment and reemployment rights of members of the Armed Forces after active duty service;
• small business matters, including contracting and subcontracting participation goals with federal departments and agencies;
• administrative matters, including regional support centers for Veterans Integrated Service Networks;
• the revision of claims based on military sexual trauma as well as claims for dependency and indemnity compensation;
• jurisdictional matters, including with respect to the Board of Veterans' Appeals and the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims;
• the revision of certain rights under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, including protections with respect to the expiration of professional licenses, a prohibition on the denial of credit or the termination of residential leases due to military service, and the temporary protection of surviving spouses under mortgage foreclosures; and
• outreach and miscellaneous matters, including: (1) repeal of the provision of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 that reduces the cost-of-living adjustment to the retirement pay of members of the Armed Forces under age 62, and (2) the accounting for discretionary accounts designated for overseas contingency operations/global war on terrorism.

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