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Version 80 · Reported to Senate without amendment · Feb 28, 2008
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Veterans Pain Care Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out at each Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care facility an initiative on pain care which shall include, for each individual receiving treatment at such facility: (1) an assessment for pain at the time of admission or initial treatment, and periodic assessments thereafter; and (2) appropriate pain care including, when necessary, access to specialty pain management services.
Directs the Secretary to carry out within the Medical and Prosthetic Research Service of the Veterans Health Administration a program of research and training on acute and chronic pain. Requires the Secretary, under such program, to designate cooperative centers for research and education on pain, with at least one center as a lead center for research on pain attributable to central and peripheral nervous system damage commonly associated with battlefield injuries characteristic of modern warfare.
People & committees
Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI] · D–HI
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Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 586.
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Reported by Senator Akaka without amendment. With written report No. 110-267.
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Reported by Senator Akaka without amendment. With written report No. 110-267.
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Committee consideration and Mark Up Session held. Business Meeting printed. S. Hrg. 110-378.
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 110-328.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12871-21872)
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12870-12871)
Introduced in Senate
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