Union Calendar No. 296

119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1336

[Report No. 119–344]


To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a pilot program to furnish hyperbaric oxygen therapy to a veteran who has a traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

February 13, 2025

Mr. Murphy (for himself, Mr. Davis of North Carolina, Mrs. Kiggans of Virginia, Ms. Strickland, Mr. Wittman, Ms. Malliotakis, Ms. Ross, Mr. Van Orden, and Mrs. Biggs of South Carolina) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

October 17, 2025

Additional sponsors: Mr. Harder of California, Ms. King-Hinds, Mr. McDowell, Mr. Moolenaar, Ms. Fedorchak, Ms. Lee of Nevada, and Mr. Owens

October 17, 2025

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed

[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]

[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on February 13, 2025]

A BILL

To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a pilot program to furnish hyperbaric oxygen therapy to a veteran who has a traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder.

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 National Traumatic Brain Injury Treatment Act”.

SEC. 2. Pilot program to furnish hyperbaric oxygen therapy to a veteran with traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder.

(a) Establishment.—The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall implement a pilot program to furnish HBOT to a veteran who has a traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder through a health care provider described in section 1703(c)(5) of title 38, United States Code.

(b) Locations.—The Secretary shall select two Veterans Integrated Service Networks in which to operate the pilot program.

(c) Accreditation required.—The Secretary shall ensure that any medical facility at which a veteran who has a traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder receives HBOT pursuant to the pilot program is accredited by—

(1) the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospital Organizations;

(2) the Undersea and Hyberbaric Medical Society; or

(3) another appropriate organization that has expertise and objectivity comparable to that of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospital Organizations or the Undersea and Hyberbaric Medical Society.

(d) Funding.—

(1) There is in the general fund of the Treasury a fund to be known as the “VA HBOT Fund” (in this Act referred to as the “Fund”).

(2) The sole source of monies for the Fund shall be donations received by the Secretary for express purposes of the Fund.

(3) Amounts in the Fund shall be available to the Secretary without fiscal year limitation to pay for HBOT under subsection (a).

(4) The Fund shall terminate on the termination date under subsection (e).

(e) Termination.—The pilot program shall terminate on the day that is three years after the date of the enactment of this Act.

(f) HBOT defined.—In this Act, the term “HBOT” means hyperbaric oxygen therapy with a medical device—

(1) approved by the Food and Drug Administration; or

(2) issued an investigational device exemption by the Food and Drug Administration.

SEC. 3. GAO report on the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy to treat traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the Committees on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate and House of Representatives an update to the report titled “Research on Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy to Treat Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder” (GAO-16-154). Such report shall include the assessment of the Comptroller General of clinical trials conducted, since the publication of such report—

(1) regarding the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy to treat traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder; and

(2) by—

(A) the Secretary of Veterans Affairs;

(B) the Secretary of Defense; and

(C) private entities.

SEC. 4. Extension of certain limits on payments of pension.

Section 5503(d)(7) of title 38, United States Code, is amended by striking “November 30, 2031” and inserting “October 30, 2034”.

Union Calendar No. 296
119th CONGRESS
     1st Session
H. R. 1336
[Report No. 119–344]
A BILL
To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a pilot program to furnish hyperbaric oxygen therapy to a veteran who has a traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder.
October 17, 2025
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed