[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 813 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 813

 To rescind the Department of Veterans Affairs memorandum of July 18, 
 2002, in which Directors of health service networks in the Department 
of Veterans Affairs are directed to ensure that no marketing activities 
          to enroll new veterans occur within their networks.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 13, 2003

    Mr. Kanjorski (for himself, Ms. Kaptur, Mr. Paul, Ms. Millender-
McDonald, Mr. Crowley, Mr. Holden, Mr. Berry, Mr. Israel, Mr. Frank of 
  Massachusetts, Mr. McGovern, Ms. Norton, Mr. Frost, Mr. Hastings of 
 Florida, Mr. Sanders, and Mr. Wexler) introduced the following bill; 
        which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To rescind the Department of Veterans Affairs memorandum of July 18, 
 2002, in which Directors of health service networks in the Department 
of Veterans Affairs are directed to ensure that no marketing activities 
          to enroll new veterans occur within their networks.

    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 Outreach Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. RESCISSION OF DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS MEMORANDUM.

    (a) Rescission of Memorandum.--The memorandum of the Department of 
Veterans Affairs dated July 18, 2002, from the Deputy Under Secretary 
for Health for Operations and Management with the subject ``Status of 
VHA Enrollment and Associated Issues'' is hereby rescinded. Marketing 
activities of Directors of health service networks (known as ``Veterans 
Integrated Service Networks'') of the Department of Veterans Affairs to 
enroll new veterans within their respective networks shall be carried 
out without regard to such memorandum.
    (b) Funding Limitation.--No funds available to the Department of 
Veterans Affairs may be used to carry out the memorandum referred to in 
subsection (a) or otherwise to implement the policy contained in that 
memorandum.
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