Veterans SPORT Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Veterans SPORT Act makes a targeted change to VA medical-services law. By inserting adaptive prostheses and terminal devices for sports and other recreational activities into the artificial-limbs provision, it pushes VA coverage toward equipment that helps veterans participate in recreation and adaptive sports rather than only basic daily mobility.
Who Benefits and How
Veterans using adaptive prostheses benefit because sports and recreation devices become part of the statutory medical-services category. Disabled veterans participating in adaptive sports benefit from clearer VA authority to furnish activity-specific terminal devices. VA prosthetics clinicians benefit from a clearer legal basis for prescribing recreational prosthetic equipment. Adaptive sports programs benefit when veterans can obtain equipment needed to participate safely.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The VA Secretary must implement the expanded medical-services definition. VA prosthetics program staff must evaluate sports and recreational devices under the amended authority. VA medical centers must handle requests for activity-specific devices and related clinical review. Federal taxpayers bear the cost if expanded coverage increases prosthetic-device spending.
Key Provisions
- Amends the VA medical-services definition in title 38.
- Adds adaptive prostheses for sports and recreational activities.
- Adds terminal devices for sports and recreational activities.
- Clarifies that recreational prosthetics can be furnished as part of eligible veterans' VA care.
Evidence Chain:
This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers.
At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Adds adaptive prostheses and terminal devices for sports and recreational activities to the VA medical-services definition for eligible veterans.
Key Policy Areas
Veterans, Health Care, Adaptive Sports
Primary Purpose
Adds adaptive prostheses and terminal devices for sports and recreational activities to the VA medical-services definition for eligible veterans.
Policy Domains
Bill provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Veterans using adaptive prostheses
- Disabled veterans in adaptive sports
- VA prosthetics clinicians
- Adaptive sports programs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- VA Secretary
- VA prosthetics program staff
- VA medical centers
- Federal taxpayers
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
ReportedCommittee on Veterans' Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an …
Mr. Banks (for himself and Mr. King) introduced the following …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Introduced in Senate
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "secretary"
- → Secretary of Veterans Affairs
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