Servicemembers' Healthcare Benefits and Rehabilitation Enhancement Act of 2007

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.

6/20/2007--Introduced.
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.


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Sponsor

• Sen. Olympia Snowe [R, ME]

Committees

• Senate Armed Services

Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to S.1670

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Introduced		Voted on by Senate		Voted on by House		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
June 20, 2007

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• Jun 20, 2007: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
• Jun 20, 2007: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8077-8078)
• Introduced on Jun 20, 2007.

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Related Bills:

• S.1682

Related Issue Areas:

• Head injuries
• Defense policy
• Armed forces
• Brain
• 22 more
• Congress
• Congressional reporting requirements
• Data banks
• Disability evaluation
• Disabled
• Government information
• Hospital care
• Informed consent (Medical law)
• Iraq compilation
• Medical care
• Medical records
• Medicine
• Mental health
• Military discharges
• Military medicine
• Post-traumatic stress disorder
• Technology
• Trauma care
• Veterans
• Veterans' medical care
• Veterans' rehabilitation
• War casualties

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Band , Leipzig 1867, S. 1670, Nr. 599). Indes ist davon abzuraten, einem Polizisten auch durch entsprechende Gesten zu verdeutlichen, daß man ihn für einen “komischen Vogel” hält und ihm denselbigen zu zeigen. Das wird nämlich zumeist

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February 04, 2008 Fernunterrichtsschutzgesetz - FernUSG

I S. 1670), zuletzt geändert durch Gesetz vom 23. Juli 2002 (BGBl. I S. 2850). § 1 - Anwendungsbereich. (1) Fernunterricht im Sinne dieses Gesetzes ist die auf vertraglicher Grundlage erfolgende, entgeltliche Vermittlung von Kenntnissen ...

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June 19, 2007 Bill Action: Introduced: S. 1670: A bill to amend title 10, United ...

Olympia Snowe [R-ME] introduced S. 1670: 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 ...

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