Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Veteran Mental Health Care Expansion Act of 2016”.
Veteran Mental Health Care Expansion Act of 2016
A BILL
To amend title 38, United States Code, to ensure that veterans with service-connected disabilities related to mental health are not barred, because of such disabilities, from readjustment counseling and related mental health services under such title, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Access to mental health services for veterans with service-connected disabilities related to mental health
Section 5303 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
“(f) If the Secretary determines that at the time of the commission of an offense leading to a person's court-martial, discharge, or resignation, such person had a service-connected disability related to mental health, subsection (a) shall not apply to counseling and related mental health services available to such person under section 1712A of this title.”