Military Eye Trauma Treatment Act of 2007
Latest action · Oct 19, 2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedSep 18, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Military Eye Trauma Treatment Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to establish within the Department of Defense (DOD) the Center of Excellence in Prevention, Diagnosis, Mitigation, Treatment, and Rehabilitation of Military Eye Injuries to: (1) develop and oversee the Military Eye Injury Registry for tracking the diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up for each case of eye injury incurred by a member of the Armed Forces while on active duty; and (2) ensure the electronic exchange of Registry information with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
Requires the Secretary to: (1) include in the Registry records of members who incurred eye injuries while on active duty on or after September 11, 2001, but before the Registry's establishment; and (2) report to Congress on the Center's establishment.
Directs the Secretary and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to conduct a cooperative study on neuro-optometric screening and diagnosis of members with traumatic brain injury (TBI) by military medical treatment facilities and VA medical centers for purposes of vision screening, diagnosis, rehabilitative management, and vision research on visual dysfunction related to TBI.
Cosponsors 31
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Sep 18, 2007 to Dec 5, 2007; 12 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-TN | Bart Gordon | Original | Sep 18, 2007 |
| D-CA | Bob Filner | Original | Sep 18, 2007 |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Original | Sep 18, 2007 |
| R-FL | Gus M. Bilirakis | Original | Sep 18, 2007 |
| R-NM | Heather Wilson | Original | Sep 18, 2007 |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Original | Sep 18, 2007 |
| R-FL | Jeff Miller | Original | Sep 18, 2007 |
| D-NY | John J. Hall | Original | Sep 18, 2007 |
| D-AR | Marion Berry | Original | Sep 18, 2007 |
| D-PA | Robert A. Brady | Original | Sep 18, 2007 |
| R-NC | Robin Hayes | Original | Sep 18, 2007 |
| D-NV | Shelley Berkley | Original | Sep 18, 2007 |
| D-MN | Collin C. Peterson | Sep 19, 2007 | |
| R-NJ | Frank A. LoBiondo | Sep 19, 2007 | |
| R-VA | J. Randy Forbes | Sep 24, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Loretta Sanchez | Sep 24, 2007 | |
| D-AR | Vic Snyder | Sep 24, 2007 | |
| D-AR | Mike Ross | Sep 25, 2007 | |
| D-PA | Patrick J. Murphy | Sep 25, 2007 | |
| R-NJ | Christopher H. Smith | Oct 1, 2007 | |
| R-NJ | Jim Saxton | Oct 1, 2007 | |
| R-AL | Spencer Bachus | Oct 1, 2007 | |
| D-WI | Tammy Baldwin | Oct 1, 2007 | |
| D-TX | Charles A. Gonzalez | Oct 2, 2007 | |
| D-SC | John M. Spratt, Jr. | Oct 2, 2007 | |
| R-FL | Ginny Brown-Waite | Oct 9, 2007 | |
| D-PA | Tim Holden | Oct 15, 2007 | |
| D-MA | Michael E. Capuano | Oct 25, 2007 | |
| R-IN | Mark E. Souder | Oct 31, 2007 | |
| D-IL | Phil Hare | Oct 31, 2007 | |
| R-PR | Luis G. Fortuno | Dec 5, 2007 |
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Armed Services Committee | Referred Sep 18, 2007 |
| Military Personnel Subcommittee | Referred Oct 19, 2007 | |
| House | Veterans' Affairs Committee | Referred Sep 18, 2007 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Sep 21, 2007 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Oct 19, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
- Sep 21, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Sep 18, 2007Introduced in House
- Sep 18, 2007Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 110-50 | U.S. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS RESEARCH PROGRAMS83 pages | Veterans' Affairs Committee | Oct 4, 2007 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 1999 | A bill to provide for the establishment of a Center of Excellence in Prevention, Diagnosis, Mitigation, Treatment, and Rehabilitation of Military Eye Injuries, and for other purposes. | Related bill | Aug 3, 2007 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To provide for the establishment of a Center of Excellence in Prevention, Diagnosis, Mitigation, Treatment, and Rehabilitation of Military Eye Injuries, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Military Eye Trauma Treatment Act of 2007
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security.
- Afghanistan
- Armed forces abroad
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Brain
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Eye care
- Eye diseases
- Governmental investigations
- Head injuries
- Health
- Health information systems
- Iraq
- Iraq compilation
- Medical research
- Medical screening
- Middle East and North Africa
- Military hospitals
- Military medicine
- Military operations
- Science, Technology, Communications
- South Asia
- Surgery
- Trauma care
- Veterans' hospitals
- Veterans' medical care
- Veterans' rehabilitation
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 18, 2007Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
