Veterans Transportation Service Act

Bill: 113-hr-1702
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Barber, Ron [D-AZ-2]
Introduced: 2013-04-24
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Transportation costs

Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Veterans' medical care
Latest action: action_date: 2013-07-09
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-04-24
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Veterans Transportation Service Act - Makes permanent (under current law, expires on January 10, 2014) the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to transport individuals to and from facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in connection with vocational rehabilitation, counseling, examination, treatment, or care.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1702 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 24, 2013 Mr. Barber (for himself and Mr. Thornberry ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs A BILL To amend title 38, United States Code, to make permanent the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to transport individuals to and from facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs in connection with rehabilitation, counseling, examination, treatment, and care.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Veterans Transportation Service Act . 2. Transportation of individuals to and from facilities of Department of Veterans Affairs Section 111A(a) of title 38, United States Code, is amended— (1) by striking (1) The Secretary and inserting The Secretary ; and (2) by striking paragraph (2).