Bill > HR3137

Introduced Session

To establish a grant program to encourage the use of assistance dogs by certain members of the Armed Forces. This bill provides for the establishment of program for the provision of service dogs to certain Armed Forces members. It requires the Department of Defense to establish a K-9 Service Corps Program to award grants to nonprofit organizations to assist them in planning, designing, establishing, or operating programs to provide assistance dogs to members with a disability who are receiving receiving medical treatment, recuperation, or therapy; those in medical hold or medical holdover status; or those on the temporary disability retired list in cases where medical principles indicate that the disability may be of a permanent nature.

Committee Categories

Jim McGovern (D)*,  Joyce Beatty (D),  Sanford Bishop (D),  Steve Cohen (D),  Gerry Connolly (D),  Peter DeFazio (D),  Rosa DeLauro (D),  Theodore Deutch (D),  Michael Doyle (D),  Lois Frankel (D),  Alcee Hastings (D),  Jim Himes (D),  Hank Johnson (D),  Marcy Kaptur (D),  Brenda Lawrence (D),  Barbara Lee (D),  Carolyn Maloney (D),  Sean Maloney (D),  Seth Moulton (D),  Richard Neal (D),  Joe Neguse (D),  Eleanor Holmes Norton (D),  Scott Peters (D),  Mark Pocan (D),  David Price (D),  Mike Quigley (D),  Lucille Roybal-Allard (D),  John Sarbanes (D),  Elissa Slotkin (D),  Eric Swalwell (D),  Mike Thompson (D),  Jeff Van Drew (R),  Nydia Velázquez (D),  Jackie Walorski (R),  Peter Welch (D),  Jennifer Wexton (D),  John Yarmuth (D), 

Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel. (on 06/06/2019)

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