Title: To amend title 38, United States Code, to prohibit smoking in any facility of the Veterans Health Administration, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
This bill prohibits smoking: (1) indoors in any Veterans Health Administration facility, and (2) outdoors in any such facility as of October 1, 2022.
The bill repeals a provision authorizing the Department of Veterans Affairs to furnish tobacco to veterans receiving hospital or domiciliary care.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1662 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1662

   To amend title 38, United States Code, to prohibit smoking in any 
facility of the Veterans Health Administration, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 21, 2017

 Mr. Wenstrup introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 38, United States Code, to prohibit smoking in any 
facility of the Veterans Health Administration, 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. PROHIBITION ON SMOKING IN FACILITIES OF THE VETERANS HEALTH 
              ADMINISTRATION.

    (a) Prohibition.--Section 1715 of title 38, United States Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
``Sec. 1715. Prohibition on smoking in facilities of the Veterans 
              Health Administration
    ``(a) Prohibition.--(1) No person may smoke indoors in any facility 
of the Veterans Health Administration.
    ``(2) No person may smoke outdoors in any facility of the Veterans 
Health Administration on or after October 1, 2022.
    ``(b) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) The term `smoke' includes the smoking of cigarettes 
        (including e-cigarettes or electronic cigarettes), cigars, 
        pipes, and any other combustion of tobacco.
            ``(2) The term `facility of the Veterans Health 
        Administration' means any land or building (including any 
        medical center, nursing home, domiciliary facility, outpatient 
        clinic, or center that provides readjustment counseling) that 
        is--
                    ``(A) under the jurisdiction of the Department of 
                Veterans Affairs;
                    ``(B) under the control of the Veterans Health 
                Administration; and
                    ``(C) not under the control of the General Services 
                Administration.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 17 of 
        such title is amended by striking the item relating to section 
        1715 and inserting the following:

``1715. Prohibition on smoking in facilities of the Veterans Health 
                            Administration.''.
            (2) Section 526 of the Veterans Health Care Act of 1992 
        (Public Law 102-585) is repealed.
    (c) Effective Date.--This section shall take effect 90 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act.
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