[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1812 Received in Senate (RDS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1812


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 22, 2019

                                Received

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                                 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.

            Passed the House of Representatives May 21, 2019.

            Attest:

                                             CHERYL L. JOHNSON,

                                                                 Clerk.