The House Human Services Committee gave House Concurrent Resolution 3,011 a due pass by roll call, voting 11-0-2; the committee also placed the resolution on the consent calendar. HCR 3,011 urges Congress to provide veterans with medical coverage for hyperbaric oxygenation therapy (HBOT).

Rep. Karen Anderson (District 19) introduced the resolution on behalf of the legislature’s military caucus and described HBOT as a treatment that increases the amount of oxygen under pressure to assist healing. Anderson told the committee HBOT can be beneficial for traumatic brain injury, post‑traumatic stress disorder, chronic wounds and chronic pain, and cited language in the resolution that describes HBOT as “a medical treatment that enhances the body’s natural healing process by inhalation of 100% oxygen in the total body chamber where atmospheric pressure is increased and controlled.”

Representative Dobrevitch asked whether the study funded earlier by the legislature — a hyperbaric chamber treatment study at the University of North Dakota Medical School — had informed the caucus’s work; Anderson said that the caucus had not yet received updates and that related legislation may be considered in a future session.

Representative Rohrer moved a due pass on HCR 3,011; Representative Anderson seconded. The motion carried by roll call 11-0-2. Representative Dobrevich subsequently moved to place the resolution on the consent calendar; that motion was seconded and carried.

The resolution is nonbinding and asks Congress to consider HBOT coverage for eligible veterans; committee testimony supporting the resolution focused on the therapy’s potential benefits for certain trauma‑related conditions. No opposition testimony was recorded in committee.