[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2044 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2044

To provide for further improvement of the program to expand and improve 
    the provision of specialized mental health services to veterans.


_______________________________________________________________________


                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 21, 2002

Mr. Rockefeller introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
To provide for further improvement of the program to expand and improve 
    the provision of specialized mental health services to veterans.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FURTHER IMPROVEMENT OF PROGRAM FOR PROVISION OF SPECIALIZED 
              MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES TO VETERANS.

    (a) Increase in Funding.--Subsection (c) of section 116 of the 
Veterans Millennium Health Care and Benefits Act (Public Law 106-117; 
113 Stat. 1559; 38 U.S.C. 1712A note) is amended by striking 
``$15,000,000'' both places it appears and inserting ``$25,000,000''.
    (b) Allocation of Funds.--Subsection (d) of that section is 
amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(1)'' before ``The Secretary''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraphs:
    ``(2) In allocating funds to facilities under paragraph (1), the 
Secretary shall ensure that--
            ``(A) not less than $10,000,000 is allocated by direct 
        grants to programs that are identified by the Mental Health 
        Strategic Health Care Group and the Committee on Care of 
        Severely Chronically Mentally Ill Veterans;
            ``(B) not less than $5,000,000 is allocated for programs on 
        post-traumatic stress disorder; and
            ``(C) not less than $5,000,000 is allocated for programs on 
        substance abuse disorder.
    ``(3) The Secretary shall provide that the funds to be allocated 
under this section during the three-year period beginning on the date 
of the enactment of this paragraph are funds for a special purpose 
program for which funds are not allocated through the Veterans 
Equitable Resource Allocation system.''.
                                 <all>