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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 See on congress.gov
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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.

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1721: Joint Formularies for Veterans Act of 2015. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-1721/
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"S. 1721: Joint Formularies for Veterans Act of 2015." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-1721/.
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S. 1721, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-1721/.
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