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 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