A bill to ensure that families of members of the National Guard and Reserve have full access to mental health care during the mobilization, deployment, and demobilization of such members, and for other purposes.
Latest action · Dec 18, 2007 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
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.
- IntroducedDec 18, 2007
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Department of Defense (DOD) should undertake actions to ensure that family members of National Guard and Reserve personnel who are deployed have full access to mental health care during the periods of mobilization, deployment, and demobilization.
Requires the Secretary of Defense to undertake an initiative to increase access to mental health care, including education concerning mental health challenges and information on available resources, for family members of such personnel who are mobilized.
Requires reimbursement under the TRICARE program for certain mental health care services, including chemical dependency treatment, provided to a family member of a covered Guard or Reserve member during a period of deployment on active duty for more than 30 days in connection with Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom who, while on such duty, is covered by the TRICARE program on a for self and family basis.
Requires regular reports from the Secretary assessing the access and quality of such family mental health care services and recommendations for legislative and administrative action.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 18, 2007Introduced in Senate
- Dec 18, 2007Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security.
- Access to health care
- Administrative procedure
- Afghanistan
- Armed forces abroad
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Armed forces reserves
- Congress
- Congress and military policy
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Counseling
- Drug abuse
- Drug abuse treatment
- Families
- Government Operations and Politics
- Health
- Iraq
- Iraq compilation
- Law
- Legislation
- Managed care
- Mental health services
- Middle East and North Africa
- Military dependents
- Military medicine
- Military operations
- National Guard
- Quality of care
- Social Welfare
- South Asia
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Dec 18, 2007Introduced in Senate
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