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H.R. 359: Veterans Dog Training Therapy Act

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H.R. 359: Veterans Dog Training Therapy Act

114th Congress · introduced 2015-01-14 · Armed Forces and National Security · Latest: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2015-01-14 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Stivers, Steve [R-OH-15] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote . Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

Veterans Dog Training Therapy Act

Plain summary

Veterans Dog Training Therapy Act Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to carry out a five-year pilot program to assess the effectiveness of addressing veterans' post-deployment mental health and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms through the therapeutic medium of educating those veterans in the training and handling of service dogs for veterans with disabilities. Requires: (1) the Secretary to carry out the pilot program through contracts with appropriate nongovernmental entities located in close proximity to at least three but no more than five VA medical centers, and (2) each of those entities to be certified in the training and handling of service dogs and to have a training area that would be appropriate for use in educating veterans with mental health conditions in the art and science of service dog training and handling.

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Official text

Veterans Dog Training Therapy Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Stivers, Steve [R-OH-15] · 36 cosponsors

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Robert J. Wittman (R-VA), James A. Himes (D-CT), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Mark Pocan (D-WI), David P. Joyce (R-OH), John R. Carter (R-TX), Austin Scott (R-GA), Mark Takano (D-CA), Mark E. Amodei (R-NV), Tim Walberg (R-MI), Chellie Pingree (D-ME)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong114-hr359 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114