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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1733 
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 27, 2025 
Ms. PEREZ (for herself, Mr. CISCOMANI, Mr. VASQUEZ, Mr. DAVIS of North 
Carolina, Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota, Mr. JOYCE of Ohio, Mr. GOLD-
EN of Maine, and Ms. PETTERSEN) 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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Rural Veterans Trans-
portation to Care Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. EXPANSION AND MODIFICATION OF TRANSPOR-
TATION GRANT PROGRAM OF DEPARTMENT 
OF VETERANS AFFAIRS. 
Section 307 of the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus 
Health Services Act of 2010 (Public Law 111–163; 38 
U.S.C. 1710 note) is amended— 
(1) in the section heading, by inserting 
‘‘RURAL OR’’ before ‘‘HIGHLY’’; 
(2) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘rural or’’ before ‘‘highly’’ 
each place it appears; 
(B) in paragraph (2)— 
(i) by redesignating subparagraph (B) 
as subparagraph (C); 
(ii) by inserting after subparagraph 
(A) the following new subparagraph (B): 
‘‘(B) County veterans service organiza-
tions.’’; and 
(iii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new subparagraph: 
‘‘(D) Tribal organizations.’’; 
(C) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘A State 
veterans service agency or veterans service or-
ganization awarded’’ and inserting ‘‘A recipient 
of’’; and 
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(D) by striking paragraph (4) and insert-
ing the following new paragraph (4): 
‘‘(4) MAXIMUM AMOUNT.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in 
subparagraph (B), the amount of a grant under 
this section may not exceed $60,000. 
‘‘(B) ADDITIONAL AMOUNT TO PURCHASE 
A VEHICLE.—The amount of a grant under this 
section to a recipient may be increased to an 
amount not to exceed $80,000 if the recipient 
is required to purchase a vehicle to comply with 
the requirements of the Americans with Disabil-
ities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq.) in 
carrying out this section.’’; 
(3) in subsection (c), by striking paragraph (1) 
and inserting the following: 
‘‘(1) RURAL; 
HIGHLY
RURAL.—The terms 
‘rural’ and ‘highly rural’ have the meanings given 
those terms under the Rural-Urban Commuting 
Areas (RUCA) coding system of the Department of 
Agriculture.’’; and 
(4) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘$3,000,000 
for each of fiscal years 2010 through 2022’’ and in-
serting ‘‘such sums as may be necessary’’. 
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