[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5097 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5097

 To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to allow certain veterans 
     to participate in the Patient-Centered Community Care program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 14, 2014

 Mr. Boustany introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to allow certain veterans 
     to participate in the Patient-Centered Community Care program.

    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 ``Local Care for Veterans Act''.

SEC. 2. PARTICIPATION IN PATIENT-CENTERED COMMUNITY CARE PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall ensure 
that a veteran described in subsection (b) may elect to receive health 
care treatment and services under the Patient-Centered Community Care 
program.
    (b) Veteran Described.--A veteran described in this subsection is a 
veteran whom the Secretary determines meets the following criteria:
            (1) The veteran is enrolled in the health care system 
        established under section 1705(a) of title 38, United States 
        Code.
            (2) The veteran resides not more than 50 miles from the 
        nearest facility of the Department of Veterans Affairs that--
                    (A) the Secretary has identified--
                            (i) in a prospectus level lease request, 
                        regardless of the date of such request, as 
                        being deficient with respect to providing 
                        certain treatment or services; or
                            (ii) as needing expansion; and
                    (B) the Secretary determines that such a deficiency 
                has not been resolved or such an expansion has not 
                occurred, including pursuant to leases entered into 
                under an Act authorizing major medical facility leases.
    (c) Health Care Treatment and Services.--The health care treatment 
and services a veteran may receive under this section shall be--
            (1) the treatment and services identified as being 
        deficient if the veteran lives not more than 50 miles from a 
        facility described in clause (i) of subsection (b)(2)(A); and
            (2) the treatment and services the veteran is eligible for 
        under chapter 17 of title 38, United States Code, if the 
        veteran lives not more than 50 miles from a facility described 
        in clause (ii) of such subsection.
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