[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4321 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4321

 To direct the Secretary of Defense to develop a strategy for treating 
     traumatic brain injuries through digital health technologies.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 10, 2025

  Mr. Crow (for himself and Mr. Crank) introduced the following bill; 
         which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of Defense to develop a strategy for treating 
     traumatic brain injuries through digital health technologies.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Supporting Modern Approaches in 
Recovery Technology for Traumatic Brain Injury Act'' or the ``SMART for 
TBI Act''.

SEC. 2. STRATEGY FOR TREATING TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES THROUGH DIGITAL 
              HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES.

    Section 735 of the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (Public Law 117-263; 10 U.S.C. 1071 note) is 
amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsections (e) and (f) as subsections 
        (f) and (g), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (d) the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(e) Digital Health Technologies.--
            ``(1) Working group.--As part of the Initiative, the 
        Secretary shall establish a working group to develop a strategy 
        for treating traumatic brain injuries through digital health 
        technologies.
            ``(2) Membership.--The working group shall be composed of 
        members of the Armed Forces, civilian employees of the 
        Department of Defense, and individuals not employed by the 
        Federal Government, who have expertise in traumatic brain 
        injury clinical care, biomedical informatics, engineering, or 
        implementation science.
            ``(3) Elements.--The strategy developed under paragraph (1) 
        shall include the following:
                    ``(A) Identification of capability gaps in the 
                treatment of traumatic brain injuries that could be 
                addressed through artificial intelligence and digital 
                health technologies.
                    ``(B) An analysis of existing research, 
                development, and acquisition efforts leveraging 
                artificial intelligence-based capabilities and digital 
                health technologies, including any applicable 
                commercial off-the-shelf solutions being used by the 
                Secretary to support the treatment of traumatic brain 
                injuries.
                    ``(C) Recommendations with respect to advances 
                required to--
                            ``(i) address gaps identified under 
                        subparagraph (A); and
                            ``(ii) significantly improve the treatment 
                        of traumatic brain injuries using artificial 
                        intelligence and digital health technologies.
                    ``(D) A recommended investment plan to advance 
                technology and knowledge readiness levels to field 
                digital health technologies to treat traumatic brain 
                injuries.
            ``(4) Briefing.--Not later than September 30, 2026, the 
        Secretary shall provide to the congressional defense committees 
        a briefing on the strategy developed under paragraph (1).''.
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