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

Summary:
This bill prohibits smoking on the premises of any Veterans Health Administration facility. The bill defines smoking as the use of cigarettes, cigars, and pipes (i.e., the heating or combustion of tobacco), as well as the use of any electronic nicotine delivery system.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3700 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3700

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 11, 2019

  Mr. Wenstrup (for himself and Miss Rice of New York) 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 on the 
premises of 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.--No person (including any veteran, patient, 
resident, employee of the Department, contractor, or visitor) may smoke 
on the premises of any facility of the Veterans Health Administration.
    ``(b) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) The term `smoke' includes--
                    ``(A) the use of cigarettes, cigars, pipes, and any 
                other combustion or heating of tobacco; and
                    ``(B) the use of any electronic nicotine delivery 
                system, including electronic or e-cigarettes, vape 
                pens, and e-cigars.
            ``(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) Table of sections.--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) Veterans health care act of 1992.--Section 526 of the 
        Veterans Health Care Act of 1992 (Public Law 102-585) is 
        repealed.
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section take 
effect on October 1, 2019.
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