[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7193 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7193

  To amend the VA MISSION Act of 2018 to expand the veterans healing 
    veterans medical access and scholarship program to include more 
                         students and schools.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 29, 2018

Miss Gonzalez-Colon of Puerto Rico introduced the following bill; which 
           was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the VA MISSION Act of 2018 to expand the veterans healing 
    veterans medical access and scholarship program to include more 
                         students and schools.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. VETERANS HEALING VETERANS MEDICAL ACCESS AND SCHOLARSHIP 
              PROGRAM.

    Section 304 of the VA MISSION Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-182; 38 
U.S.C. 7601 note) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``18 eligible veterans'' 
        and inserting ``28 eligible veterans''; and
            (2) in subsection (g)--
                    (A) in the subsection heading, by striking 
                ``Covered Medical Schools'' and inserting 
                ``Definitions'';
                    (B) in paragraph (1), by redesignating 
                subparagraphs (A) through (E) as clauses (i) through 
                (v), respectively (and by moving such clauses two ems 
                to the right);
                    (C) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (5) as 
                subparagraphs (A) through (E), respectively (and by 
                moving such subparagraphs two ems to the right);
                    (D) by striking ``section, the term'' and inserting 
                the following: ``section:
            ``(1) Covered medical school.--The term''; and
                    (E) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(F) University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine.
                    ``(G) Universidad Central del Caribe School of 
                Medicine.
                    ``(H) San Juan Bautista School of Medicine.
                    ``(I) Ponce Health Sciences University.
                    ``(J) University of Texas Health Sciences Center at 
                San Antonio.
            ``(2) State.--The term `State' has the meaning given that 
        term in section 101 of title 38, United States Code.''.
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