[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3709 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3709

 To make permanent the pilot program administered by the Secretary of 
  Veterans Affairs regarding enhanced contract care authority for the 
 health care needs of veterans located in highly rural areas, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 8, 2015

    Mr. Poliquin (for himself and Mrs. Kirkpatrick) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' 
                                Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To make permanent the pilot program administered by the Secretary of 
  Veterans Affairs regarding enhanced contract care authority for the 
 health care needs of veterans located in highly rural areas, and for 
                            other purposes.

    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 ``Helping our Rural Veterans Receive 
Health Care Act''.

SEC. 2. PROGRAM OF ENHANCED CONTRACT CARE AUTHORITY FOR HEALTH CARE 
              NEEDS OF VETERANS IN HIGHLY RURAL AREAS.

    (a) Permanent Project ARCH.--Subsection (a) of section 403 of the 
Veterans' Mental Health and Other Care Improvements Act of 2008 (Public 
Law 110-387; 38 U.S.C. 1703 note) is amended--
            (1) by striking paragraph (3);
            (2) by redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph (3); and
            (3) in paragraph (3), as so redesignated--
                    (A) by striking ``Veterans Integrated Service 
                Networks (and such other locations as the Secretary 
                considers appropriate)'' and inserting ``locations''; 
                and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following new 
                subparagraph:
                    ``(F) Such other locations that the Secretary 
                determines necessary to ensure that all covered 
                veterans may participate in the program.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--Such section 403 is further amended--
            (1) by striking ``pilot program'' each place it appears and 
        inserting ``program''; and
            (2) in subsection (k)(2), by striking ``regarding'' and all 
        that follows through the period and inserting ``regarding the 
        continuation of the program.''.
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