Real Choice for Veterans Act

Bill: 114-hr-1096
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Byrne, Bradley [R-AL-1]
Introduced: 2015-02-26
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health care coverage and access

Veterans' medical care
Latest action: action_date: 2015-03-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-02-26
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Real Choice for Veterans Act</strong></p> <p>Amends the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 to change a criterion for eligibility of certain veterans to receive medical care and services from non-Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities to a requirement that the veteran resides more than 40 miles from the closest VA medical facility that is able to provide the care and services the veteran seeks (currently, more than 40 miles from the closest VA medical facility).</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1096 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 26, 2015 Mr. Byrne (for himself, Mr. Rogers of Alabama , Mrs. Roby , and Mr. Aderholt ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs A BILL To amend the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 to clarify the distance requirements regarding the eligibility of certain veterans to receive medical care and services from non-Department of Veterans Affairs facilities.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Real Choice for Veterans Act . 2. Clarification of distance requirement Section 101(b)(2)(B) of the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 ( 38 U.S.C. 1701 note) is amended by striking medical facility and all that follows through the semicolon and inserting the following: closest medical facility of the Department, including a community-based outpatient clinic, that is able to provide to the veteran the care and services that the veteran seeks; .