[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1096 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1096

To amend the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 to 
clarify the distance requirements regarding the eligibility of certain 
 veterans to receive medical care and services from non-Department of 
                      Veterans Affairs facilities.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 26, 2015

   Mr. Byrne (for himself, Mr. Rogers of Alabama, Mrs. Roby, and Mr. 
  Aderholt) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 to 
clarify the distance requirements regarding the eligibility of certain 
 veterans to receive medical care and services from non-Department of 
                      Veterans Affairs facilities.

    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 ``Real Choice for Veterans Act''.

SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION OF DISTANCE REQUIREMENT.

    Section 101(b)(2)(B) of the Veterans Access, Choice, and 
Accountability Act of 2014 (38 U.S.C. 1701 note) is amended by striking 
``medical facility'' and all that follows through the semicolon and 
inserting the following: ``closest medical facility of the Department, 
including a community-based outpatient clinic, that is able to provide 
to the veteran the care and services that the veteran seeks;''.
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