US Congress House Bill 3266 (Prior Session Legislation)

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July 24 2009 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Directs the Secretaries of Defense (DOD) and Veterans Affairs (VA) to jointly establish the Wounded Warrior K-9 Corps program for the awarding of grants to nonprofits to assist them in establishing programs to provide assistance dogs to certain members of the Armed Forces and veterans who have certain disabilities. Defines the term "assistance dog" to mean a dog specifically trained to perform physical tasks to mitigate the effects of such a disability, except that such term does not include a dog specifically trained for comfort or personal defense.

To establish a grant program to encourage the use of assistance dogs by certain members of the Armed Forces and veterans.

Rep Massa, Eric J. J.	Rep Wexler, Robert	Rep Peterson, Collin C.	Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C.
Rep Young, C.W. Bill	Rep Klein, Ron	Rep Brown, Henry E., Jr.	Rep Cao, Anh "Joseph"
Rep Jones, Walter B., Jr.	Rep Rooney, Thomas J.	Rep Whitfield, Ed	Rep Nye, Glenn C., III
Rep Moran, James P.	Rep McNerney, Jerry	Rep Boswell, Leonard L.	Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy
Rep Cohen, Steve	Rep Filner, Bob	Rep Hall, John J.	Rep Hastings, Alcee L.
Rep Israel, Steve	Rep Kaptur, Marcy	Rep Meek, Kendrick B.	Rep Nye, Glenn C.

Date	Chamber	Action
2009-07-24		Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
2009-07-20		Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
2009-07-20		Referred to House Armed Services
2009-07-20		Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:HN03266:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111hr3266ih/pdf/BILLS-111hr3266ih.pdf