To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide that the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, in the management of health care services for veterans, shall place certain low-income veterans in a higher health-care priority category.

Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, as of October 2, 2002, to give a higher priority in the provision of hospital care and medical services under the veterans' patient enrollment system to veterans who are eligible for treatment as a low-income family under the United States Housing Act of 1937 for the area in which the veterans reside, regardless of whether such veterans are otherwise treated as single person families or families under such Act.