SEC. 2. MANDATORY REIMBURSEMENT OF VETERANS RE-
CEIVING EMERGENCY TREATMENT IN NON- 
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS FACILI-
TIES UNTIL TRANSFER TO DEPARTMENT FA-
CILITIES. 
(a) CERTAIN VETERANS WITHOUT SERVICE-CON-
NECTED DISABILITY.—Section 1725 of title 38, United 
States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ‘‘may reim-
burse’’ and inserting ‘‘shall reimburse’’; and 
(2) in subsection (f)(1), by striking subpara-
graph (C) and inserting the following new subpara-
graph (C): 
‘‘(C) until— 
‘‘(i) such time as the veteran can be 
transferred safely to a Department facility 
or other Federal facility; or 
‘‘(ii) such time as a Department facil-
ity or other Federal facility agrees to ac-
cept such transfer if— 
‘‘(I) at the time described in 
clause (i), no Department facility or 
other Federal facility agrees to accept 
such transfer; and 
‘‘(II) the non-Department facility 
in which such medical care or services 
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is furnished makes and documents 
reasonable attempts to transfer the 
veteran to a Department facility or 
other Federal facility.’’. 
(b) CERTAIN VETERANS WITH SERVICE-CONNECTED 
DISABILITY.—Section 1728 of such title is amended— 
(1) by striking subsection (a) and inserting the 
following new subsection (a): 
‘‘(a) The Secretary shall, under such regulations as 
the Secretary shall prescribe, reimburse veterans entitled 
to hospital care or medical services under this chapter for 
the reasonable value of emergency treatment (including 
travel and incidental expenses under the terms and condi-
tions set forth in section 111 of this title) for which such 
veterans have made payment, from sources other than the 
Department, where such emergency treatment was ren-
dered to such veterans in need thereof for any of the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(1) An adjudicated service-connected dis-
ability. 
‘‘(2) A non-service-connected disability associ-
ated with and held to be aggravating a service-con-
nected disability. 
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‘‘(3) Any disability of a veteran in the veteran 
has a total disability permanent in nature from a 
service-connected disability. 
‘‘(4) Any illness, injury, or dental condition of 
a veteran who— 
‘‘(A) is a participant in a vocational reha-
bilitation program (as defined in section 
3101(9) of this title); and 
‘‘(B) is medically determined to have been 
in need of care or treatment to make possible 
the veteran’s entrance into a course of training, 
or prevent interruption of a course of training, 
or hasten the return to a course of training 
which was interrupted because of such illness, 
injury, or dental condition.’’; 
(2) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘care or serv-
ices’’ both places it appears and inserting ‘‘emer-
gency treatment’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(c) In this section, the term ‘emergency treatment’ 
has the meaning given such term in section 1725(f)(1) of 
this title.’’. 
Æ 
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