[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4908 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4908

To amend title 38, United States Code, to prohibit the collection of a 
   health care copayment by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from a 
              veteran who is a member of an Indian tribe.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 29, 2019

Mr. Gallego (for himself, Mr. Cook, Ms. Haaland, Mr. Cole, Mr. Khanna, 
and Mr. Grijalva) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                   the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to prohibit the collection of a 
   health care copayment by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from a 
              veteran who is a member of an Indian tribe.

    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 ``Native American Veteran Parity in 
Access to Care Today Act'' or ``Native American PACT Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON COLLECTION OF A HEALTH CARE COPAYMENT BY THE 
              SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS FROM A VETERAN WHO IS A 
              MEMBER OF AN INDIAN TRIBE.

    (a) In General.--Section 1730A of title 38, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) in the heading, by striking ``catastrophically 
        disabled'' and inserting ``certain'';
            (2) by inserting ``(a) Prohibition.--'' before 
        ``Notwithstanding'';
            (3) by striking ``a veteran who is catastrophically 
        disabled, as defined by the Secretary,'' and inserting ``a 
        covered veteran''; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(b) Covered Veteran Defined.--In this section, the term `covered 
veteran' means a veteran who--
            ``(1) is catastrophically disabled, as defined by the 
        Secretary; or
            ``(2) is an Indian or urban Indian, as those terms are 
        defined in section 4 of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act 
        (Public Law 94-437; 25 U.S.C. 1603).''.
    (b) Technical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
chapter 17 of such title is amended by striking the item relating to 
section 1730A and inserting the following:

``1730A. Prohibition on collection of copayments from certain 
                            veterans.''.
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