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        H.R.1812

                     One Hundred Sixteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

           Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday,
            the third day of January, two thousand and twenty


                                 An Act


 
      To amend title 38, United States Code, to furnish Vet Center 
 readjustment counseling and related mental health services to certain 
                              individuals.

    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 ``Vet Center Eligibility Expansion 
Act''.
SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF VET CENTER SERVICES.
    Section 1712A of title 38, United States Code, is amended--
        (1) by striking ``clauses (i) through (iv)'' both places it 
    appears and inserting ``clauses (i) through (vi)'';
        (2) by striking ``in clause (v)'' both places it appears and 
    inserting ``in clause (vii)'';
        (3) in subsection (a)(1)(C)--
            (A) by redesignating clauses (iv) and (v) as clauses (vi) 
        and (vii), respectively; and
            (B) by inserting after clause (iii) the following new 
        clauses:
        ``(iv) Any individual who is a veteran or member of the Armed 
    Forces, including a member of a reserve component of the Armed 
    Forces, who served--
            ``(I) on active service in response to a national emergency 
        or major disaster declared by the President; or
            ``(II) in the National Guard of a State under orders of the 
        chief executive of that State in response to a disaster or 
        civil disorder in such State.
        ``(v) Any individual who participated in a drug interdiction 
    operation as a member of the Coast Guard, regardless of the 
    location of that operation.''; and
        (4) in subsection (h), by adding at the end the following new 
    paragraphs:
        ``(4) The term `active service' has the meaning given that term 
    in section 101 of title 10.
        ``(5) The term `civil disorder' has the meaning given that term 
    in section 232 of title 18.''.
SEC. 3. PLAN TO PROVIDE VET CENTER SERVICES TO VETERANS LIVING IN AREAS 
WHERE NO VET CENTER IS LOCATED.
    The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall submit to the Committees on 
Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and House of Representatives a plan to 
provide Vet Center services to veterans living in geographic areas 
where no Vet Center is located, including in the United States insular 
areas.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.