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| https://rooney.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rooney-autism-amendment-passes-with-ndaa | Rooney Autism Amendment Passes with NDAA | 2016-12-02 | 2016 | 2016-12 | Republican | House | FL | Tom Rooney | R000583 | rooney.house.gov | legacy | WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Tom Rooney (FL-17) successfully included a provision in the final National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for FY 2017 that will provide critical health care services for military families that have children with autism. The House performed its most important constitutional obligation to provide for the common defense when it passed the 2017 NDAA today by a vote of 375-34. Rooney’s provision restores access to care for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in military families by reversing reductions in TRICARE reimbursement rates for providers of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). In April, the Defense Health Agency (DHA) implemented cuts to ABA reimbursement rates for providers of ABA services across the country. These cuts were imposed despite indications from military families across the country that they were experiencing ABA provider shortages; and in some locations, families had no access to providers at all. Rooney’s provision to reverse the DHA’s policy received wide bipartisan support, and once enacted, will ensure that military children with ASD are be able to obtain the services they and their families need and deserve. “Having a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder shouldn’t make it harder for you to serve in the military,” Rooney said. “This amendment is a commonsense adjustment to an ill-informed policy that never should have been changed in the first place. I am pleased that the final compromise bill included my provision to ensure that our service members and veterans are able to access basic health care services for their children.” The bill includes $619 billion to fund national defense programs, including $5.8 billion for operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and Europe. Additionally, the bill includes provisions to: Gives troops a raise: The bill fully funds the 2.1% pay raise our troops are entitled to under the law while blocking the president’s ability to reduce troop pay. Keeps terrorists in GITMO: Continues the prohibition preventing the president from transferring any Guantanamo Bay detainees to United States soil. Helps close the readiness gap: The bill corrects budget shortfalls that have impaired readiness and risked our troops’ security and increases funding to restore necessary troop levels and training hours and to modernize our land and sea-based weapons systems critical to deterring threats to the homeland. Preventing erroneous bonus repayments: The bill establishes a 10-year statute of limitations on the collection of debt from a service member who wasn’t at fault for an overpayment of special pay or other allowance. | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |