US Congress House Bill 1863 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on April 16 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-05-01 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Local Care for Veterans Act This bill amends the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to ensure that a veteran may elect to receive health care treatment and services in a qualifying non-VA facility if: (1) the veteran is enrolled in the VA health care system and resides not more than 50 miles from the nearest VA facility that the Secretary has identified in a prospectus level lease request as being deficient with respect to providing certain treatment or services or as needing expansion; and (2) the Secretary determines that such deficiency has not been resolved or such expansion has not occurred.

Local Care for Veterans Act

Rep. Charles Boustany [R-LA]

Rep. Cedric Richmond [D-LA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-05-01	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2015-04-16	House	Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
2015-04-16	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1863/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr1863/BILLS-114hr1863ih.pdf