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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 7504 

To expand and modify the grant program of the Department of Veterans 

Affairs to provide innovative transportation options to veterans in highly 

rural areas, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

FEBRUARY 29, 2024 

Ms. PEREZ (for herself, Mr. CISCOMANI, and Mr. VASQUEZ) introduced the 

following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 

A BILL 

To expand and modify the grant program of the Department 

of Veterans Affairs to provide innovative transportation 

options to veterans in highly rural areas, and for other 

purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Rural Veterans Trans5 portation to Care Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. EXPANSION AND MODIFICATION OF TRANSPOR2 TATION GRANT PROGRAM OF DEPARTMENT 

3 OF VETERANS AFFAIRS. 

4 Section 307 of the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus 

5 Health Services Act of 2010 (Public Law 111–163; 38 

6 U.S.C. 1710 note) is amended— 

7 (1) in the section heading, by inserting 

8 ‘‘RURAL OR’’ before ‘‘HIGHLY’’; 

9 (2) in subsection (a)— 

10 (A) by inserting ‘‘rural or’’ before ‘‘highly’’ 

11 each place it appears; 

12 (B) in paragraph (2), by adding at the end 

13 the following new subparagraph: 

14 ‘‘(C) Tribal organizations.’’; 

15 (C) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘A State 

16 veterans service agency or veterans service or17 ganization awarded’’ and inserting ‘‘A recipient 

18 of’’; and 

19 (D) by striking paragraph (4) and insert20 ing the following new paragraph (4): 

21 ‘‘(4) MAXIMUM AMOUNT.— 

22 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in 

23 subparagraph (B), the amount of a grant under 

24 this section may not exceed $60,000. 

25 ‘‘(B) ADDITIONAL AMOUNT FOR ADA-COM26 PLIANT VEHICLE.—The amount of a grant 


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1 under this section to a recipient may be in2 creased to an amount not to exceed $80,000 if 

3 the recipient of such grant is required to pur4 chase a vehicle to comply with the requirements 

5 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 

6 (42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq.).’’; 

7 (3) in subsection (c)— 

8 (A) by striking paragraph (1) and insert9 ing the following: 

10 ‘‘(1) RURAL; HIGHLY RURAL.—The terms 

11 ‘rural’ and ‘highly rural’ have the meanings given 

12 such terms under the Rural-Urban Commuting 

13 Areas (RUCA) coding system of the Department of 

14 Agriculture.’’; 

15 (B) by redesignating paragraph (2) as 

16 paragraph (3); and 

17 (C) by inserting after paragraph (1), the 

18 following new paragraph: 

19 ‘‘(2) TRIBAL ORGANIZATION.—The therm ‘trib20 al organization’ has the meaning given such term in 

21 section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Edu22 cation Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304).’’; and 


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1 (4) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘$3,000,000 

2 for each of fiscal years 2010 through 2014’’ and in3 serting ‘‘such sums as may be necessary’’. 

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