[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1591 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1591

   To amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify that the United 
 States may not recover or collect any charges from a third party for 
hospital care or medical services provided by the Secretary of Veterans 
        Affairs to a veteran for a service-connected disability.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 18, 2009

   Mr. Adler of New Jersey (for himself, Mr. LoBiondo, Mr. Young of 
 Alaska, Mr. Klein of Florida, Mr. Ellison, Mr. Nye, Mr. Mitchell, and 
 Mr. Michaud) 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 clarify that the United 
 States may not recover or collect any charges from a third party for 
hospital care or medical services provided by the Secretary of Veterans 
        Affairs to a veteran for a service-connected disability.

    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 ``Fulfilling America's Promise to Our 
Veterans Act''.

SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION THAT THE UNITED STATES MAY NOT RECOVER CHARGES 
              FROM A THIRD PARTY FOR TREATMENT OF VETERANS' SERVICE-
              CONNECTED DISABILITIES.

    Section 1729 of title 38, United States Code, is amended----
            (1) by redesignating subsection (i) as subsection (k); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (h) the following new 
        subsection (i):
    ``(i) In any case in which a veteran is furnished care or services 
under this chapter for a service-connected disability, the United 
States has no right to recover or collect any charges for such care or 
services from any third party.''.
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