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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. 
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), by adding at the end 
the following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(C) 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 
(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 FOR ADA-COM-
PLIANT
VEHICLE.—The amount of a grant 
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under this section to a recipient may be in-
creased to an amount not to exceed $80,000 if 
the recipient of such grant is required to pur-
chase a vehicle to comply with the requirements 
of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 
(42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq.).’’; 
(3) in subsection (c)— 
(A) by striking paragraph (1) and insert-
ing the following: 
‘‘(1) RURAL; 
HIGHLY
RURAL.—The terms 
‘rural’ and ‘highly rural’ have the meanings given 
such terms under the Rural-Urban Commuting 
Areas (RUCA) coding system of the Department of 
Agriculture.’’; 
(B) by redesignating paragraph (2) as 
paragraph (3); and 
(C) by inserting after paragraph (1), the 
following new paragraph: 
‘‘(2) TRIBAL ORGANIZATION.—The therm ‘trib-
al organization’ has the meaning given such term in 
section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Edu-
cation Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304).’’; and 
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(4) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘$3,000,000 
for each of fiscal years 2010 through 2014’’ and in-
serting ‘‘such sums as may be necessary’’. 
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