CHIROPRACTIC HEALTH CARE DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM.

SEC. 739. CHIROPRACTIC HEALTH CARE DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM. (a) Two-Year Extension.—Subsection (b) of section 731 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 (Public Law 103–337; 10 U.S.C. 1092 note) is amended by striking out “1997” and inserting in lieu thereof “1999”. (b) Expansion to at Least Three Additional Treatment Facilities.—Subsection (a)(2)(A) of such section is amended by striking out “not less than 10” and inserting in lieu thereof “the National Naval Medical Center, the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and not less than 11 other”. (c) Reports.—Subsection (c) of such section is amended— (1) by striking paragraph (3); and (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraphs: “(3) Not later than January 30, 1998, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on National Security of the House of Representatives a report that identifies the additional treatment facilities designated to furnish chiropractic care under the program that were not so designated before the report required by paragraph 111 STAT. 1816(1) was prepared, together with the plan for the conduct of the program at the additional treatment facilities. “(4) Not later than May 1, 1998, the Secretary of Defense shall modify the plan for evaluating the program submitted pursuant to paragraph (2) in order to provide for the evaluation of the program at all of the designated treatment facilities under the program, including the treatment facilities referred to in paragraph (3). “(5) Not later than May 1, 2000, the Secretary shall submit to the committees referred to in paragraph (3) a final report in accordance with the plan submitted pursuant to paragraph (2).”.