[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6317 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6317

  To amend title 38, United States Code, to ensure that veterans with 
service-connected disabilities related to mental health are not barred, 
because of such disabilities, from readjustment counseling and related 
    mental health services under such title, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 15, 2016

 Mr. O'Rourke (for himself, Mr. Jones, and Ms. Judy Chu of California) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                           Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 38, United States Code, to ensure that veterans with 
service-connected disabilities related to mental health are not barred, 
because of such disabilities, from readjustment counseling and related 
    mental health services under such title, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Veteran Mental Health Care Expansion 
Act of 2016''.

SEC. 2. ACCESS TO MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR VETERANS WITH SERVICE-
              CONNECTED DISABILITIES RELATED TO MENTAL HEALTH.

    Section 5303 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(f) If the Secretary determines that at the time of the 
commission of an offense leading to a person's court-martial, 
discharge, or resignation, such person had a service-connected 
disability related to mental health, subsection (a) shall not apply to 
counseling and related mental health services available to such person 
under section 1712A of this title.''.
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