IIB 

115TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 95 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JULY 31, 2017 

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 

AN ACT 

To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide child care assistance 

to veterans receiving certain medical services provided 

by the Department of Veterans Affairs. 

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


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Veterans’ Access to 

3 Child Care Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. CHILD CARE ASSISTANCE FOR VETERANS RECEIV5 ING MENTAL HEALTH CARE AND OTHER IN6 TENSIVE HEALTH CARE SERVICES PROVIDED 

7 BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AF8 FAIRS. 

9 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter III of chapter 17 of 

10 title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 

11 end the following new section: 

12 ‘‘§ 1730B. Child care assistance for veterans receiving 

13 mental health care and other intensive 

14 health care services 

15 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall provide child 

16 care assistance to an eligible veteran for any period that 

17 the veteran— 

18 ‘‘(1) receives covered health care services at a 

19 facility of the Department; and 

20 ‘‘(2) is required travel to and return from such 

21 facility for the receipt of such health care services. 

22 ‘‘(b) CHILD CARE ASSISTANCE.—(1) Child care as23 sistance provided under this section may include any of 

24 the following: 

25 ‘‘(A) A stipend for the payment of child care of26 fered by a licensed child care center (either directly 


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1 or through a voucher program) which shall be, to 

2 the extent practicable, modeled after the Depart3 ment of Veterans Affairs Child Care Subsidy Pro4 gram established pursuant to section 590 of title 40. 

5 ‘‘(B) Direct provision of child care at an on-site 

6 facility of the Department. 

7 ‘‘(C) A payment made directly to a private child 

8 care agency. 

9 ‘‘(D) A collaboration with a facility or program 

10 of another Federal department or agency. 

11 ‘‘(E) Such other form of assistance as the Sec12 retary considers appropriate. 

13 ‘‘(2) In the case that child care assistance under this 

14 section is provided as a stipend under paragraph (1)(A), 

15 such stipend shall cover the full cost of such child care. 

16 ‘‘(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

17 ‘‘(1) The term ‘eligible veteran’ means a vet18 eran who— 

19 ‘‘(A) is the primary caretaker of a child or 

20 children; and 

21 ‘‘(B) is— 

22 ‘‘(i) receiving covered health care serv23 ices from the Department; or 

24 ‘‘(ii) in need of covered health care 

25 services, and but for lack of child care 


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1 services, would receive such covered health 

2 care services from the Department. 

3 ‘‘(2) The term ‘covered health care services’ 

4 means— 

5 ‘‘(A) regular mental health care services; 

6 ‘‘(B) intensive mental health care services; 

7 or 

8 ‘‘(C) such other intensive health care serv9 ices that the Secretary determines that provi10 sion of assistance to the veteran to obtain child 

11 care would improve access to such health care 

12 services by the veteran.’’. 

13 (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 

14 at the beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting 

15 after the item relating to section 1730A the following new 

16 item: 

‘‘1730B. Child care assistance for veterans receiving mental health care and 

other intensive health care services.’’. 

17 SEC. 3. EXTENSION OF REDUCTION IN AMOUNT OF PEN18 SION FURNISHED BY DEPARTMENT OF VET19 ERANS AFFAIRS FOR CERTAIN VETERANS 

20 COVERED BY MEDICAID PLANS FOR SERV21 ICES FURNISHED BY NURSING FACILITIES. 

22 Section 5503(d)(7) of title 38, United States Code, 

23 is amended by striking ‘‘September 30, 2024’’ and insert24 ing ‘‘September 30, 2026’’. 


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1 SEC. 4. EXTENSION OF REQUIREMENT FOR COLLECTION 

2 OF FEES FOR HOUSING LOANS GUARANTEED 

3 BY SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS. 

4 Section 3729(b)(2) of title 38, United States Code, 

5 is amended— 

6 (1) in subparagraph (A)— 

7 (A) in clause (iii), by striking ‘‘September 

8 30, 2024’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2024’’; 

9 and 

10 (B) in clause (iv), by striking ‘‘September 

11 30, 2024’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2024’’; 

12 (2) in subparagraph (B)— 

13 (A) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘September 

14 30, 2024’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2024’’; 

15 and 

16 (B) in clause (ii), by striking ‘‘September 

17 30, 2024’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2024’’; 

18 (3) in subparagraph (C)— 

19 (A) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘September 

20 30, 2024’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2024’’; 

21 and 

22 (B) in clause (ii), by striking ‘‘September 

23 30, 2024’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2024’’; 

24 and 

25 (4) in subparagraph (D)— 


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1 (A) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘September 

2 30, 2024’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2024’’; 

3 and 

4 (B) in clause (ii), by striking ‘‘September 

5 30, 2024’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2024’’. 

Passed the House of Representatives July 28, 2017. 

Attest: KAREN L. HAAS, 

Clerk. 


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