[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1432 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1432

  To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs to provide long-term nursing care at public expense to 
   any veteran with a service-connected disability of 50 percent or 
                                greater.


_______________________________________________________________________


                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 15, 1999

Mrs. Kelly (for herself, Mr. Romero-Barcelo, Mr. Cooksey, Mr. Sanders, 
Mr. Shows, Mr. Gary Miller of California, Mr. Brown of California, Mr. 
    Barr of Georgia, Mr. Jones of North Carolina, and Mr. Metcalf) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                           Veterans' Affairs

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs to provide long-term nursing care at public expense to 
   any veteran with a service-connected disability of 50 percent or 
                                greater.

    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 ``Veterans Nursing Home Care Act of 
1999''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO PROVIDE LONG-TERM NURSING CARE TO VETERANS WITH 
              SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITIES OF 50 PERCENT OR GREATER.

    (a) Requirement.--(1) Paragraph (1) of section 1710(a) of title 38, 
United States Code, is amended by striking ``care and medical services, 
and may furnish nursing home care,'' in the matter preceding 
subparagraph (A) and inserting ``care, medical services, and nursing 
home care''.
    (2) Paragraph (4) of that section is amended by inserting ``, and 
the requirement in paragraph (1) that the Secretary furnish nursing 
home care,'' after ``medical services''.
    (b) Care in Non-Department Nursing Homes.--Section 1720(a)(3)(B) of 
such title is amended by inserting before the semicolon the following: 
``or for a veteran with a service-connected disability of 50 percent or 
greater''.
                                 <all>