§ 1704. Preventive health services: annual report

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1992

   Veterans Health Care Act of 1992

   Pub. L. 102–585 title V § 512(a) · 106 Stat. 4943

   Enacted · 38 U.S.C. § 1704

   Added Pub. L. 102–585, title V, § 512(a), Nov. 4, 1992, 106 Stat. 4957

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Added Pub. L. 102–585, title V, § 512(a), Nov. 4, 1992, 106 Stat. 4957

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (a) Annual Report.— Chapter 17 is amended by inserting after section 1703 the following new section: .“§ 1704. Preventive health services: annual report.”. “Not later than October 31 each year, the Secretary shall submit to the Committees on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate and House of Representatives a report on preventive health services. Each such report shall include the following: “(1) A description of the programs and activities of the Department with respect to preventive health services during the preceding fiscal year, including a description of the following: “(A) The programs conducted by the Department— “(i) to educate veterans with respect to health pro motion and disease prevention; and “(ii) to provide veterans with preventive health screenings and other clinical services, with such description setting forth the types of resources used by the Department to conduct such screenings and services and the number of veterans reached by such screenings and services. “(B) The means by which the Secretary addressed the specific preventive health services needs of particular groups of veterans (including veterans with service-connected disabilities, elderly veterans, low-income veterans, women veterans, institutionalized veterans, and veterans who are at risk for mental illness). “(C) The manner in which the provision of such services was coordinated with the activities of the Medical and Prosthetic Research Service of the Department and the National Center for Preventive Health. “(D) The manner in which the provision of such services was integrated into training programs of the Department, including initial and continuing medical training of medical students, residents, and Department staff. “(E) The manner in which the Department participated in cooperative preventive health efforts with other governmental and private entities (including State and local health promotion offices and not-for-profit organizations). “(F) The specific research carried out by the Department with respect to the long-term relationships among screening activities, treatment, and morbidity and mortality outcomes. “(G) The cost effectiveness of such programs and activities, including an explanation of the means by which the costs and benefits (including the quality of life of veterans who participate in such programs and activities) of such programs and activities are measured. “(2) A specific description of research activities on preventive health services carried out during that period using employees, funds, equipment, office space, or other support services of the Department, with such description setting forth— “(A) the source of funds for those activities; “(B) the articles or publications (including the authors of the articles and publications) in which those activities are described; “(C) the Federal, State, or local governmental entity or private entity, if any, with which such activities were carried out; and “(D) the clinical, research, or staff education projects for which funding applications were submitted (including the source of the funds applied for) and upon which a decision is pending or was denied. “(3) An accounting of the expenditure of funds during that period by the National Center for Preventive Health under section 7318 of this title.”.

2. 2016

   Jeff Miller and Richard Blumenthal Veterans Health Care and Benefits Improvement Act of 2016

   Pub. L. 114–315 title VI § 602(b) · 130 Stat. 1536

   Added · 38 U.S.C. § 1704(1)(A)(iii)

   Pub. L. 114–315 added cl. (iii)

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Par. (1)(A)(iii). Pub. L. 114–315 added cl. (iii).

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (b) Inclusion of Recommended Adult Immunizations in Annual Report.— Section 1704(1)(A) is amended— (1) in clause (i), by striking “and” at the end; (2) in clause (ii), by striking the period at the end and inserting “; and”; and (3) by inserting after clause (ii) the following new clause: “(iii) to provide veterans each immunization on the recommended adult immunization schedule at the time such immunization is indicated on that schedule.” .

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