A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to authorize contracts with the Republic of the Philippines for the provision of health-care services for Commonwealth Army veterans and new Philippine Scouts, to authorize the continued maintenance of a Veterans' Administration office in the Republic of the Philippines, to impose new requirements with respect to claims by certain persons residing outside the United States, to modify the circumstances under which contract hospital care and medical services may be furnished outside of the contiguous States, to authorize the provision of care in the United States for the treatment of the service-connected disabilities of certain Filipino veterans, to increase the authorization of appropriations for grants to assist certain health manpower training institutions, and to extend and improve the program of veterans readjustment appointments in the Federal Government; to extend the VA's authority in Public Law 94-123, as amended, to enter into special-pay agreements with physicians and dentists; to require certain studies to be undertaken; and for other purposes.
Veterans' Programs Extension Act - Title I: Extension of Certain Programs in the Republic of the Philippines - Extends the authority of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to operate in the Philippines to September 30, 1981, and extends the authority of the Administrator to enter into contracts to provide certain medical services in the Philippines to Commonwealth Army veterans and New Philippine Scouts to fiscal year 1983.
Title II: Benefits Payable to Persons Residing Outside the United States - Imposes certain eligibility requirements upon a person adopted by a veteran under non-American law and residing outside the United States during the lifetime of such veteran in order to be considered a legally adopted child for certain veterans' benefits.
Directs the Administrator to carry out a study of veterans' benefits to persons living outside the United States, including an evaluation of the desirability of maintaining the Veterans' Administration Regional Office in the Republic of the Philippines.
Title III: Health Care Amendments - Extends to December 31, 1980, the authority of the Administrator to provide hospital care through private facilities in certain areas outside the continental United States. Makes such authority permanent for Alaska and Hawaii. Expands such authority to include medical services which will obviate the need for hospital admission.
Authorizes the Administrator to furnish hospital, nursing home, and medical services in the United States to Commonwealth Army veterans or New Philippine Scouts for the treatment of service-connected disabilities.
Requires the Administrator to furnish a report to the Congress and the President by October 1, 1979, concerning Veterans' Administration hospital and medical care in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
Amends the Veterans' Administration Physician and Dentist Pay Comparability Act of 1975 to extend special salary payments to doctors and dentists working for the Veterans' Administration to fiscal year 1979.
Authorizes supplemental grants for fiscal year 1979 to assist in the establishment of new State medical schools operated in conjunction with Veterans' Administration facilities.
Authorizes the Administrator to enter into contracts with certain organizations to provide reimbursable emergency medical services at such organizations' national conventions.
Title IV: Veterans' Readjustment Appointments and Pension Reform Implementation - Extends the authority to make veterans readjustment appointments of Vietnam era veterans to the Federal Government through September 30, 1981.
Raises the maximum level for such appointments from GS-5 to GS-7. Provides that any disabled Vietnam era veteran shall be eligible for such appointments without regard to the existing requirement of 14 years of education.
Introduced in Senate
Referred to Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
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