text: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
  
      This Act may be cited as the ``Military Eye Trauma Treatment Act of 
  2007''.
  
  SEC. 2. CENTER OF EXCELLENCE IN PREVENTION, DIAGNOSIS, MITIGATION, 
                TREATMENT, AND REHABILITATION OF MILITARY EYE INJURIES.
  
      (a) Establishment.--
              (1) In general.--Chapter 55 of title 10, United States 
          Code, is amended by inserting after section 1105 the following 
          new section:
  ``Sec. 1105a. Center of Excellence in Prevention, Diagnosis, 
                Mitigation, Treatment, and Rehabilitation of Military Eye 
                Injuries
      ``(a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense shall establish within 
  the Department of Defense a center of excellence in the prevention, 
  diagnosis, mitigation, treatment, and rehabilitation of military eye 
  injuries to carry out the responsibilities specified in subsection (c). 
  The center shall be known as a `Center of Excellence in Prevention, 
  Diagnosis, Mitigation, Treatment, and Rehabilitation of Military Eye 
  Injuries'.
      ``(b) Partnerships.--The Secretary shall ensure that the Center 
  collaborates to the maximum extent practicable with the Secretary of 
  Veterans Affairs, institutions of higher education, and other 
  appropriate public and private entities (including international 
  entities) to carry out the responsibilities specified in subsection 
  (c).
      ``(c) Responsibilities.--(1) The Center shall--
              ``(A) develop, implement, and oversee a registry of 
          information for the tracking of the diagnosis, surgical 
          intervention or other operative procedure, other treatment, and 
          follow up for each case of significant eye injury incurred by a 
          member of the armed forces while serving on active duty;
              ``(B) ensure the electronic exchange with the Secretary of 
          Veterans Affairs of information obtained through tracking under 
          subparagraph (A); and
              ``(C) enable the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to access 
          the registry and add information pertaining to additional 
          treatments or surgical procedures and eventual visual outcomes 
          for veterans who were entered into the registry and 
          subsequently received treatment through the Veterans Health 
          Administration.
      ``(2) The registry under this subsection shall be known as the 
  `Military Eye Injury Registry' (hereinafter referred to as the 
  `Registry').
      ``(3) The Center shall develop the Registry in consultation with 
  the ophthalmological specialist personnel and optometric specialist 
  personnel of the Department of Defense and the ophthalmological 
  specialist personnel and optometric specialist personnel of the 
  Department of Veterans Affairs. The mechanisms and procedures of the 
  Registry shall reflect applicable expert research on military and other 
  eye injuries.
      ``(4) The mechanisms of the Registry for tracking under paragraph 
  (1)(A) shall ensure that each military medical treatment facility or 
  other medical facility shall submit to the Center for inclusion in the 
  Registry information on the diagnosis, surgical intervention or other 
  operative procedure, other treatment, and follow up for each case of 
  eye injury described in that paragraph as follows (to the extent 
  applicable):
              ``(A) Not later than 30 days after surgery or other 
          operative intervention, including a surgery or other operative 
          intervention carried out as a result of a follow-up 
          examination.
              ``(B) Not later than 180 days after the significant eye 
          injury is reported or recorded in the medical record.
      ``(5)(A) The Center shall provide notice to the Blind 
  Rehabilitation Service of the Department of Veterans Affairs and to the 
  eye care services of the Veterans Health Administration on each member 
  of the armed forces described in subparagraph (B) for purposes of 
  ensuring the coordination of the provision of ongoing eye care and 
  visual rehabilitation benefits and services by the Department of 
  Veterans Affairs after the separation or release of such member from 
  the armed forces.
      ``(B) A member of the armed forces described in this subparagraph 
  is a member of the armed forces as follows:
              ``(i) A member with a significant eye injury incurred while 
          serving on active duty, including a member with visual 
          dysfunction related to traumatic brain injury.
              ``(ii) A member with an eye injury incurred while serving 
          on active duty who has a visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the 
          injured eye.
              ``(iii) A member with an eye injury incurred while serving 
          on active duty who has a loss of peripheral vision resulting in 
          twenty degrees or less of visual field in the injured eye.
      ``(d) Utilization of Registry Information.--The Secretary of 
  Defense and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall jointly ensure that 
  information in the Military Eye Injury Registry is available to 
  appropriate ophthalmological and optometric personnel of the Department 
  of Veterans Affairs for purposes of encouraging and facilitating the 
  conduct of research, and the development of best practices and clinical 
  education, on eye injuries incurred by members of the armed forces in 
  combat.''.
              (2) Clerical amendment.--The table of sections at the 
          beginning of chapter 55 of such title is amended by inserting 
          after the item relating to section 1105 the following new item:
  
  ``1105a. Center of Excellence in Prevention, Diagnosis, Mitigation, 
                              Treatment, and Rehabilitation of Military 
                              Eye Injuries.''.
      (b) Inclusion of Records of OIF/OEF Veterans.--The Secretary of 
  Defense shall take appropriate actions to include in the Military Eye 
  Injury Registry established under section 1105a of title 10, United 
  States Code (as added by subsection (a)), such records of members of 
  the Armed Forces who incurred an eye injury while serving on active 
  duty on or after September 11, 2001, but before the establishment of 
  the Registry, as the Secretary considers appropriate for purposes of 
  the Registry.
      (c) Report on Establishment.--Not later than 180 days after the 
  date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to 
  Congress a report on the status of the Center of Excellence in 
  Prevention, Diagnosis, Mitigation, Treatment, and Rehabilitation of 
  Military Eye Injuries under section 1105a of title 10, United States 
  Code (as so added), including the progress made in establishing the 
  Military Eye Injury Registry required under that section.
      (d) Traumatic Brain Injury Post Traumatic Visual Syndrome.--In 
  carrying out the program at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, District 
  of Columbia, on Traumatic Brain Injury Post Traumatic Visual Syndrome, 
  the Secretary of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs shall 
  jointly provide for the conduct of a cooperative program for members of 
  the Armed Forces and veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury by military 
  medical treatment facilities of the Department of Defense and medical 
  centers of the Department of Veterans Affairs selected for purposes of 
  this subsection for purposes of vision screening, diagnosis, 
  rehabilitative management, and vision research, including research on 
  prevention, on visual dysfunction related to Traumatic Brain Injury.
      (e) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is hereby authorized to 
  be appropriated for the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2008 for 
  Defense Health Program, $5,000,000 for the Center of Excellence in 
  Prevention, Diagnosis, Mitigation, Treatment, and Rehabilitation of 
  Military Eye Injuries under section 1105a of title 10, United States 
  Code (as so added).
target: Military Eye Trauma Treatment Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to establish within the Department of Defense (DOD) the Center of Excellence in Prevention, Diagnosis, Mitigation, Treatment, and Rehabilitation of Military Eye Injuries to: (1) develop and oversee the Military Eye Injury Registry for tracking the diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up for each case of eye injury incurred by a member of the Armed Forces while on active duty; and (2) ensure the electronic exchange of Registry information with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
  
  Requires the Secretary to: (1) include in the Registry records of members who incurred eye injuries while on active duty on or after September 11, 2001, but before the Registry's establishment; and (2) report to Congress on the Center's establishment.
  
  Directs the Secretary and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to conduct a cooperative study on neuro-optometric screening and diagnosis of members with traumatic brain injury (TBI) by military medical treatment facilities and VA medical centers for purposes of vision screening, diagnosis, rehabilitative management, and vision research on visual dysfunction related to TBI.
feat_title: To provide for the establishment of a Center of Excellence in Prevention, Diagnosis, Mitigation, Treatment, and Rehabilitation of Military Eye Injuries, and for other purposes.