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114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5431 
To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a pilot program 
to award grants to health care entities to lease, purchase, or build 
health care facilities for female patients to provide hospital care and 
medical services to qualified female veterans. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 9, 2016 
Mr. ISRAEL (for himself and Mr. ZELDIN) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 
A BILL 
To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a 
pilot program to award grants to health care entities 
to lease, purchase, or build health care facilities for fe-
male patients to provide hospital care and medical serv-
ices to qualified female veterans. 
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 ‘‘Expanding Care for 
Female Veterans Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. PILOT PROGRAM TO PROVIDE HOSPITAL CARE AND 
MEDICAL SERVICES TO QUALIFIED FEMALE 
VETERANS. 
(a) PILOT PROGRAM ESTABLISHED.—The Secretary 
of Veterans Affairs shall establish a pilot program to 
award grants to health care entities to lease, purchase, 
or build health care facilities for female patients to provide 
hospital care and medical services to qualified female vet-
erans. 
(b) DURATION OF PILOT PROGRAM.—The pilot pro-
gram shall terminate three years after the date of the en-
actment of this Act. 
(c) APPLICATION.—To be selected to receive a grant 
under the pilot program, a health care entity shall submit 
to the Secretary an application at such time, in such man-
ner, and containing such information as the Secretary may 
require. 
(d) NATURE OF FACILITIES LEASED, PURCHASED, 
OR BUILT THROUGH USE OF PILOT PROGRAM GRANT 
FUNDS.—For purposes of providing hospital care and 
medical services to qualified female veterans, a health care 
facility leased, purchased, or built under the pilot program 
shall be deemed to be— 
(1) an entity specified in section 101(a)(1)(B) 
of the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability 
Act of 2014 (38 U.S.C. 1701 note); or 
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(2) if the authority to carry out the program es-
tablished under section 101 of such Act is termi-
nated, an entity otherwise authorized to provide hos-
pital care and medical services pursuant to an agree-
ment entered into by the Secretary. 
(e) REPORT.—Not later than three years after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Vet-
erans Affairs shall submit a report to Congress that in-
cludes the following: 
(1) The number of grants awarded under the 
pilot program. 
(2) The amount of each grant awarded under 
the pilot program. 
(3) A list of the health care entities awarded 
grants under the pilot program. 
(4) An assessment of the pilot program. 
(5) A recommendation as to whether the dura-
tion of the pilot program should be extended. 
(f) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) HOSPITAL CARE.—The term ‘‘hospital care’’ 
has the meaning given such term in section 1701 of 
title 38, United States Code. 
(2) MEDICAL
SERVICES.—The term ‘‘medical 
services’’ has the meaning given such term in section 
1701 of title 38, United States Code. 
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(3) QUALIFIED FEMALE VETERAN.—The term 
‘‘qualified female veteran’’ means a female veteran 
enrolled in the patient enrollment system of the De-
partment of Veterans Affairs established and oper-
ated under section 1705 of title 38, United States 
Code. 
(g) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2017 to carry out the 
pilot program. 
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