Title: A bill to amend the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act of 2010 to extend and expand the pilot program on the use of community-based organizations and local and State government entities to ensure that veterans receive care and benefits for which they are eligible and for other purposes.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
This bill amends the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act of 2010 to: (1) extend until September 30, 2019, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) pilot program on the use of community-based organizations and local and state government entities to coordinate and increase the availability of health care to veterans transitioning to civilian life, (2) authorize the VA to expand the program to include additional locations beyond the five locations originally selected, and (3) require the VA to submit a report by 180 days after the completion of the program on the advisability of continuing or expanding it.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 903 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 903

  To amend the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act of 
  2010 to extend and expand the pilot program on the use of community-
 based organizations and local and State government entities to ensure 
 that veterans receive care and benefits for which they are eligible, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 7, 2017

 Mr. Udall (for himself and Mr. Tester) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act of 
  2010 to extend and expand the pilot program on the use of community-
 based organizations and local and State government entities to ensure 
 that veterans receive care and benefits for which they are eligible, 
                        and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. EXTENSION AND EXPANSION OF PILOT PROGRAM ON USE OF CERTAIN 
              ORGANIZATIONS AND ENTITIES TO ENSURE THAT VETERANS 
              RECEIVE CARE AND BENEFITS FOR WHICH THEY ARE ELIGIBLE.

    (a) Extension.--Subsection (b) of section 506 of the Caregivers and 
Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-163; 38 
U.S.C. 523 note) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(b) Duration of Program.--The Secretary may not carry out the 
pilot program after September 30, 2019.''.
    (b) Expansion of Locations.--Subsection (c) of such section is 
amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(3) Additional locations.--The Secretary may expand the 
        pilot program to include additional locations if the Secretary 
        recommends that the pilot program be expanded in the initial 
        report submitted under subsection (g)(2)(C).''.
    (c) Report.--Subsection (g) of such section is amended--
            (1) in the subsection heading, by striking ``Report on 
        Program'' and inserting ``Reports'';
            (2) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``and not later than 180 
        days after the completion of the pilot program,'' after 
        ``September 30, 2017,''; and
            (3) in paragraph (2)--
                    (A) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by 
                striking ``The report'' and inserting ``Each report''; 
                and
                    (B) in subparagraph (C), by inserting ``or 
                expanding'' after ``continuing''.
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