Title: To amend the VA MISSION Act of 2018 to expand the veterans healing veterans medical access and scholarship program to include more students and schools.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
This bill expands the Department of Veterans Affairs medical education pilot program, which currently provides funding for the medical education of two eligible veterans at each of the nine covered medical schools. The bill adds five schools to the list of covered medical schools, increasing the number of veterans covered from 18 to 28.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2308 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2308

  To amend the VA MISSION Act of 2018 to expand the veterans healing 
    veterans medical access and scholarship program to include more 
                         students and schools.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 12, 2019

Miss Gonzalez-Colon of Puerto Rico introduced the following bill; which 
           was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the VA MISSION Act of 2018 to expand the veterans healing 
    veterans medical access and scholarship program to include more 
                         students and schools.

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

SECTION 1. VETERANS HEALING VETERANS MEDICAL ACCESS AND SCHOLARSHIP 
              PROGRAM.

    Section 304 of the VA MISSION Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-182; 38 
U.S.C. 7601 note) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``18 eligible veterans'' 
        and inserting ``28 eligible veterans''; and
            (2) in subsection (g)--
                    (A) in the subsection heading, by striking 
                ``Covered Medical Schools'' and inserting 
                ``Definitions'';
                    (B) in paragraph (1), by redesignating 
                subparagraphs (A) through (E) as clauses (i) through 
                (v), respectively (and by moving such clauses two ems 
                to the right);
                    (C) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (5) as 
                subparagraphs (A) through (E), respectively (and by 
                moving such subparagraphs two ems to the right);
                    (D) by striking ``section, the term'' and inserting 
                the following: ``section:
            ``(1) Covered medical school.--The term''; and
                    (E) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(F) University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine.
                    ``(G) Universidad Central del Caribe School of 
                Medicine.
                    ``(H) San Juan Bautista School of Medicine.
                    ``(I) Ponce Health Sciences University.
                    ``(J) University of Texas Health Sciences Center at 
                San Antonio.
            ``(2) State.--The term `State' has the meaning given that 
        term in section 101 of title 38, United States Code.''.
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