S.Amdt. 447

SA 447. Mr. BLUMENTHAL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2024 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in title VII, insert the
following:

SEC. __. REPORT ON COVERAGE OF MIGRAINE PREVENTION AND
TREATMENT DEVICES.

(a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
(1) Members of the Armed Forces are diagnosed with or
exhibit symptoms of migraines at a rate that is 3 times
higher than the general population.
(2) 1 in 3 members of the Armed Forces experience severe
headaches and migraines within the first months after
returning from deployment.
(3) Women are 3 to 6 times more likely than men to
experience migraines.
(4) Operational barriers, performance-limiting adverse
effects, and the ineffectiveness of drug treatments for some
members of the Armed Forces demonstrate the necessity of
increasing the availability of non-pharmacological devices
that can treat and prevent migraines.
(b) Report.--Not later than 120 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit
to Congress a report on the plan of the Secretary to provide
non-pharmacological, neuromodulation migraine prevention and
treatment devices that have been cleared by the Food and Drug
Administration to members of the Armed Forces who could
benefit from those devices.
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