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[CITE: 38USC7322]

 
                      TITLE 38--VETERANS' BENEFITS
 
              PART V--BOARDS, ADMINISTRATIONS, AND SERVICES
 
 CHAPTER 73--VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION--ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONS
 
           SUBCHAPTER II--GENERAL AUTHORITY AND ADMINISTRATION
 
Sec. 7322. Breast cancer mammography policy

    (a) The Under Secretary for Health shall develop a national policy 
for the Veterans Health Administration on mammography screening for 
veterans.
    (b) The policy developed under subsection (a) shall--
        (1) specify standards of mammography screening;
        (2) provide recommendations with respect to screening, and the 
    frequency of screening, for--
            (A) women veterans who are over the age of 39; and
            (B) veterans, without regard to age, who have clinical 
        symptoms, risk factors, or family history of breast cancer; and

        (3) provide for clinician discretion.

(Added Pub. L. 105-114, title II, Sec. 208(a)(1), Nov. 21, 1997, 111 
Stat. 2289.)


                             Effective Date

    Section 208(b) of Pub. L. 105-114 provided that: ``The Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs shall develop the national policy on mammography 
screening required by section 7322 of title 38, United States Code, as 
added by subsection (a), and shall furnish such policy in a report to 
the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and House of 
Representatives, not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act [Nov. 21, 1997]. Such policy shall not take effect before 
the expiration of 30 days after the date of its submission to those 
committees.''


                            Sense of Congress

    Section 208(c) of Pub. L. 105-114 provided that: ``It is the sense 
of Congress that the policy developed under section 7322 of title 38, 
United States Code, as added by subsection (a), shall be in accordance 
with the guidelines endorsed by the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services and the Director of the National Institutes of Health.''
