Bill Text: OR HJM1 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Urging Congress to overturn regulation prohibiting provision of service or therapy dogs for veterans with emotional and mental disabilities.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2013-04-05 - Filed with Secretary of State. [HJM1 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2013-HJM1-Introduced.html

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     77th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2013 Regular Session

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                     House Joint Memorial 1

Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession
  filed (at the request of House Interim Committee on Veterans
  Affairs)

                             SUMMARY

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measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.

  Urges Congress to overturn United States Department of Veterans
Affairs regulation prohibiting provision of service or therapy
dogs for veterans with emotional and mental disabilities.

                         JOINT MEMORIAL
To the President of the United States and the Senate and the
  House of Representatives of the United States of America, in
  Congress assembled:
  We, your memorialists, the Seventy-seventh Legislative Assembly
of the State of Oregon, in legislative session assembled,
respectfully represent as follows:
  Whereas many veterans from the current conflicts in Iraq and
Afghanistan, as well as veterans of past conflicts, suffer from
physical, emotional and mental disabilities due to their military
service; and
  Whereas there are both evidence-based and anecdotal accounts of
people with emotional and mental trauma experiencing significant
improvement through animal therapy; and
  Whereas any treatment that benefits veterans with emotional and
mental disabilities due to their military service should be
available to the veterans and their families, including service
or therapy dogs; and
  Whereas providers of animal therapy are eager to assist
Oregon's veteran population both in the reintegration phase of
their return from combat operations and throughout their lives as
they manage their emotional and mental disabilities; now,
therefore,
Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of
  Oregon:
  (1) We, the members of the Seventy-seventh Legislative
Assembly, respectfully request that the Congress of the United
States overturn the United States Department of Veterans Affairs
regulation prohibiting the provision of service or therapy dogs
for veterans with emotional and mental disabilities.
  (2) A copy of this memorial shall be sent to the President of
the United States, to the Senate Majority Leader, to the Speaker
of the House of Representatives and to each member of the Oregon
Congressional Delegation.
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