A bill to create a hyperbaric oxygen therapy grant program and pilot program for providing treatment to veterans with traumatic brain injuries or post-traumatic stress disorder; to provide for the powers and duties of certain state governmental officers and entities; and to require the promulgation of rules.
House Bills 5456 and 5457 establish a three-year pilot and grant program, along with a dedicated state fund, to provide free hyperbaric oxygen therapy to Michigan veterans suffering from traumatic brain injury or PTSD, setting provider standards, funding limits, and oversight requirements under the administration of the Department of Health and Human Services, contingent on related legislation.
Co-sponsored by Reps.
Referred to the Committee on Families and Veterans
Reported with substitute H-1
Referred to the Committee on Rules
Reported with substitute H-3
Substitute H-3 concurred in by voice vote
1. Amend page 13, line 3, by striking out enacting section 1 and inserting:
“Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 103rd Legislature are enacted into law:
(a) House Bill No. 5457.
(b) House Bill No. 5590.
(c) House Bill No. 5591.
(d) House Bill No. 5592.
(e) House Bill No. 5593.”.
The amendment failed by voice vote
1. Amend page 6, line 7, after “disorder” by striking out the balance of the subsection and inserting “meets both of the following:
(a) Is documented as a service-connected disability by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
(b) Is documented by a physician.”.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 65 to 42 (details)
Motion to give immediate effect
by
The motion prevailed by voice vote
Referred to the Committee on Health Policy
