[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 991 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 991

 To amend title 38, United States Code, and other statutes, to extend 
    VA's authority to operate various programs, collect copayments 
associated with provision of medical benefits, and obtain reimbursement 
              from insurance companies for care furnished.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                June 29 (legislative day, June 19), 1995

Mr. Simpson (by request) introduced the following bill; which was read 
        twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 38, United States Code, and other statutes, to extend 
    VA's authority to operate various programs, collect copayments 
associated with provision of medical benefits, and obtain reimbursement 
              from insurance companies for care furnished.
    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That except as 
otherwise expressly provided, whenever in this Act an amendment is 
expressed in terms of an amendment to a section or other provision, the 
reference shall be considered to be made to a section or other 
provision of title 38, United States Code.
    Sec. 2. Section 1720A(e) is amended by striking ``1995'' and 
inserting in lieu thereof ``1997''.
    Sec. 3. Section 1720C(a) is amended by striking ``1995'' and 
inserting in lieu thereof ``1996''.
    Sec. 4. Section 1722A(c) is amended by striking ``1998'' and 
inserting in lieu thereof ``2000''.
    Sec. 5. (a) Section 1732 is amended--
            (1) in the heading by striking ``and grants'';
            (2) by striking subsection (b) and redesignating 
        subsections (c) and (d) as (b) and (c);
            (3) in subsection (b) as redesignated by striking ``or 
        grant'' both places it appears;
            (4) in subsection (c) as redesignated by striking ``and to 
        make grants''.
    (b) The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 17 is amended 
by revising the item relating to section 1732 to read as follows:

``1732. Contracts to provide for the care and treatment of United 
                            States veterans by the Veterans Memorial 
                            Medical Center''.
    Sec. 6. Section 3735(c) is amended by striking ``1995'' and 
inserting in lieu thereof ``1997''.
    Sec. 7. Section 7451(d)(3)(C)(iii) is amended by striking ``1995'' 
and inserting in lieu thereof ``1999''.
    Sec. 8. Section 7618 is amended by striking ``1995'' and inserting 
in lieu thereof ``1999''.
    Sec. 9. Section 8169 is amended by striking ``1995'' and inserting 
in lieu thereof ``1997''.
    Sec. 10. Section 115(d) of the Veterans' Benefits and Services Act 
of 1988, Public Law 100-322, is amended by striking ``1995'' and 
inserting in lieu thereof ``1998''.
    Sec. 11. Section 7(a) of Public Law 102-54 is amended by striking 
``1995'' and inserting in lieu thereof ``1998''.
    Sec. 12. Section 8013(e) of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act 
of 1990 (Public Law 101-508) is amended by striking ``1998'' and 
inserting in lieu thereof ``2000''.
    Sec. 13. The Secretary of Veterans Affairs may carry out the major 
medical facility projects for the Department of Veterans Affairs, and 
may carry out the major medical facility leases for that Department, 
for which funds are requested in the budget of the President for fiscal 
year 1996, and authorization is required under section 8104(a)(2) of 
title 38, United States Code.
    Sec. 14. (a) There are authorized to be appropriated to the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 1996--
            (1) $224,800,000 for the major medical facility projects 
        authorized in section 13; and
            (2) $2,790,000 for the major medical facility leases 
        authorized in section 13.
    (b) The projects authorized in section 13 may only be carried out 
using--
            (1) funds appropriated for fiscal year 1996 pursuant to the 
        authorization of appropriations in subsection (a);
            (2) funds appropriated for Construction, Major Projects for 
        any fiscal year that remain available for obligation; and
            (3) funds appropriated for Construction, Major Projects for 
        any fiscal year for a category of activity not specific to a 
        project.
    Sec. 15. Section 1710(e)(3) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(3) Hospital and nursing home care and medical services 
        may not be provided under or by virtue of subsection (a)(1)(G) 
        of this section--
                    ``(A) after December 31, 1996 in the case of a 
                veteran described in paragraph (1)(A); or
                    ``(B) after September 30, 1997 in the case of a 
                veteran described in paragraph (1)(C).''
    Sec. 16. Section 1712(a)(1)(D) is amended by striking out 
``December 31, 1995'' and inserting in lieu thereof ``September 10, 
1997''.
    Sec. 17. Section 1729(a)(2)(E) is amended by striking ``1998'' and 
inserting in lieu thereof ``2000''.
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