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[H.R. 4276 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.4276

                     One Hundred Thirteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

           Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday,
           the third day of January, two thousand and fourteen


                                 An Act


 
  To extend and modify a pilot program on assisted living services for 
                  veterans with traumatic brain injury.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
    This Act may be cited as the ``Veterans Traumatic Brain Injury Care 
Improvement Act of 2014''.
SEC. 2. EXTENSION AND MODIFICATION OF PILOT PROGRAM ON ASSISTED LIVING 
SERVICES FOR VETERANS WITH TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY.
    (a) Modification of Report Requirements.--Subsection (e) 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 to read as 
follows:
    ``(e) Reports.--
        ``(1) Quarterly reports.--
            ``(A) In general.--For each calendar quarter occurring 
        during the period beginning January 1, 2015, and ending 
        September 30, 2017, the Secretary shall submit to the 
        Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and the House of 
        Representatives a report on the pilot program.
            ``(B) Elements.--Each report submitted under subparagraph 
        (A) shall include each of the following for the quarter 
        preceding the quarter during which the report is submitted the 
        following:
                ``(i) The number of individuals that participated in 
            the pilot program.
                ``(ii) The number of individuals that successfully 
            completed the pilot program.
                ``(iii) The degree to which pilot program participants 
            and family members of pilot program participants were 
            satisfied with the pilot program.
                ``(iv) The interim findings and conclusions of the 
            Secretary with respect to the success of the pilot program 
            and recommendations for improvement.
        ``(2) Final report.--
            ``(A) In general.--Not later than 60 days after the 
        completion of the pilot program, the Secretary shall submit to 
        the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and the House 
        of Representatives a final report on the pilot program.
            ``(B) Elements.--The final report required by subparagraph 
        (A) shall include the following:
                ``(i) A description of the pilot program.
                ``(ii) The Secretary's assessment of the utility of the 
            activities carried out under the pilot program in enhancing 
            the rehabilitation, quality of life, and community 
            reintegration of veterans with traumatic brain injury.
                ``(iii) An evaluation of the pilot program in light of 
            independent living programs carried out by the Secretary 
            under title 38, United States Code, including--

                    ``(I) whether the pilot program duplicates services 
                provided under such independent living programs;
                    ``(II) the ways in which the pilot program provides 
                different services that the services provided under 
                such independent living program;
                    ``(III) how the pilot program could be better 
                defined or shaped; and
                    ``(IV) whether the pilot program should be 
                incorporated into such independent living programs.

                ``(iv) Such recommendations as the Secretary considers 
            appropriate regarding improving the pilot program.''.
    (b) Definition of Community-Based Brain Injury Residential 
Rehabilitative Care Services.--Such section is further amended--
        (1) in the section heading, by striking ``assisted living'' and 
    inserting ``community-based brain injury residential rehabilitative 
    care'';
        (2) in subsection (c), in the subsection heading, by striking 
    ``Assisted Living'' and inserting ``Community-Based Brain Injury 
    Residential Rehabilitative Care'';
        (3) by striking ``assisted living'' each place it appears, and 
    inserting ``community-based brain injury rehabilitative care''; and
        (4) in subsection (f)(1), by striking ``and personal care'' and 
    inserting ``rehabilitation, and personal care''.
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall take 
effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.
    (d) Prohibition on New Appropriations.--No additional funds are 
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Act and the amendments 
made by this Act, and this Act and such amendments shall be carried out 
using amounts otherwise available for such purpose.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.