Veterans' Extended Health Care Services and Business Enhancements Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3260
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2003-10-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Appropriations
Business ethics
Chronically ill
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Coinsurance
Commemorations
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Congressional tributes
Cost effectiveness
Defense contracts
Defense procurement
Dental care
Department of Veterans Affairs
Discrimination in employment
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Ex-Members of Congress
Ex-prisoners of war
Executive reorganization
Executives
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
General Services Administration
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Government procurement
Government publicity
Health
Health planning
Higher education
Homeless
House of Representatives
Housing and Community Development
Land transfers
Leases
Long-term care
Medical economics
Medical education
Medical malpractice
Medical research
Mental health services
Mental illness
Names
Nonprofit organizations
Nursing homes
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Prescription pricing
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Research centers
Revolving funds
Science, Technology, Communications
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-08
text: 
Veterans' Extended Health Care Services and Business Enhancements Act of 2003 - Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to: (1) extend through 2008 the period for the provision of veterans' noninstitutional extended-care services and required nursing home care; (2) remove a provision requiring a person to have been detained or interned for at least 90 days in order to qualify for outpatient dental care as a former prisoner of war; (3) allow any Under Secretary within the Department of Veterans Affairs (currently only the Under Secretary for Health) to provide business plans for the use within the Department of enhanced-use leases; (4) remove other statutory requirements with respect to the enhanced-use lease program; (5) allow the Secretary of Defense to make purchases through the Department's revolving supply fund; (6) provide for coverage under the tort claims laws for employees of Department nonprofit research corporations; (7) extend through 2008 the authority to establish such corporations; (8) revise due dates of certain required reports; and (9) designate the Department medical center in Prescott, Arizona, as the Bob Stump Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-06
text: -See Public Law 108-170.
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: -Certain provisions incorporated. See S. 1156, Title I, Sections 101, 105, and 106; Title II, 202 and 241; Title IV, Sections 402, 403 and 405.
action_date: 2003-11-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-10-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-10-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2019-2020)
action_date: 2003-10-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-08
text: Introduced in House