[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 250 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 250

  To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide authority for the 
    Secretary of Veterans Affairs to extend priority health care to 
  veterans who served during the Persian Gulf War in Israel or Turkey.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 7, 1997

Mr. Quinn (for himself, Mr. Ramstad, Mr. Davis of Virginia, Mr. Doyle, 
 Mr. Filner, Mr. Watts of Oklahoma, Mr. Conyers, Mr. Deal of Georgia, 
and Mr. Kennedy of Massachusetts) introduced the following bill; which 
           was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide authority for the 
    Secretary of Veterans Affairs to extend priority health care to 
  veterans who served during the Persian Gulf War in Israel or Turkey.

    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 ``Persian Gulf Syndrome Health 
Benefits Extension Act of 1997''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORITY TO EXTEND PRIORITY HEALTH CARE FOR SERVICE DURING THE 
              PERSIAN GULF WAR IN ISRAEL OR TURKEY.

    Section 1710(e)(1)(C) of title 38, United States Code, is amended 
by inserting ``, or in Israel or Turkey, '' after ``Southwest Asia 
theater of operations''.
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