A bill to authorize the expansion of the pilot program of the Department of Veterans Affairs on assisted living for veterans to include three additional health care regions of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Amends the Veterans Millennium Health Care and Benefits Act to authorize three additional health care regions for the Department of Veterans Affairs assisted living for veterans pilot program. (Limits service in such additional areas to three years.)

[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1572 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1572

 To authorize the expansion of the pilot program of the Department of 
   Veterans Affairs on assisted living for veterans to include three 
 additional health care regions of the Department of Veterans Affairs.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 2, 2003

  Mr. Reid (for Mr. Graham of Florida) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To authorize the expansion of the pilot program of the Department of 
   Veterans Affairs on assisted living for veterans to include three 
 additional health care regions of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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

SECTION 1. EXPANSION OF PILOT PROGRAM OF DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS 
              ON ASSISTED LIVING FOR VETERANS.

    Section 103(b) of the Veterans Millennium Health Care and Benefits 
Act (Public Law 106-117; 113 Stat. 1552; 38 U.S.C. 1710B note) is 
amended--
            (1) by striking ``Location of Pilot Program.--'' and 
        inserting ``Locations of Pilot Program.--(1)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(2)(A) In the addition to the health care region of the 
Department selected for the pilot program under paragraph (1), the 
Secretary may also carry out the pilot program in not more than three 
additional designated health care regions of the Department selected by 
the Secretary for purposes of this section.
    ``(B) Notwithstanding subsection (f), the authority of the 
Secretary to provide services under the pilot program in a health care 
region of the Department selected under subparagraph (A) shall cease on 
the date that is three years after the commencement of the provision of 
services under the pilot program in the health care region.''.
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