S 1721
114th Congress
Senate
Armed Forces and National Security
Drug therapy
Military medicine
Prescription drugs
Veterans' medical care
Joint Formularies for Veterans Act of 2015
Introduced: July 8, 2015
Introduced by:
Blumenthal, Richard
Democratic
· Connecticut
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Jul 8, 2015
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Jul 8, 2015
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Joint Formularies for Veterans Act of 2015
This bill directs the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to jointly establish: (1) a uniform formulary with respect to systemic pain and psychotropic drugs that are critical for the transition of an individual from receiving health care services furnished by DOD to health care services furnished by VA, and (2) a uniform formulary for DOD and VA that includes all appropriate systemic pain and psychotropic drugs.
Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit DOD and VA from each maintaining its own formularies.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Committees of jurisdiction
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