Helping our Rural Veterans Receive Health Care Act

Bill: 114-hr-3709
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Poliquin, Bruce [R-ME-2]
Introduced: 2015-10-08
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health promotion and preventive care

Hospital care

Rural conditions and development

Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Veterans' medical care
Latest action: action_date: 2015-10-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-10-08
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Helping our Rural Veterans Receive Health Care Act</strong></p> <p>This bill amends the Veterans' Mental Health and Other Care Improvements Act of 2008 to make permanent and expand the pilot program to provide, through qualifying non-VA health care providers, VA-authorized hospital care or medical, rehabilitative, or preventive health services to veterans in highly rural areas.</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3709 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES October 8, 2015 Mr. Poliquin (for himself and Mrs. Kirkpatrick ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs A BILL To make permanent the pilot program administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs regarding enhanced contract care authority for the health care needs of veterans located in highly rural areas, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Helping our Rural Veterans Receive Health Care Act . 2. Program of enhanced contract care authority for health care needs of veterans in highly rural areas (a) Permanent Project ARCH Subsection (a) of section 403 of the Veterans’ Mental Health and Other Care Improvements Act of 2008 ( Public Law 110–387 ; 38 U.S.C. 1703 note) is amended— (1) by striking paragraph (3); (2) by redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph (3); and (3) in paragraph (3), as so redesignated— (A) by striking Veterans Integrated Service Networks (and such other locations as the Secretary considers appropriate) and inserting locations ; and (B) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: (F) Such other locations that the Secretary determines necessary to ensure that all covered veterans may participate in the program. . (b) Conforming amendments Such section 403 is further amended— (1) by striking pilot program each place it appears and inserting program ; and (2) in subsection (k)(2), by striking regarding and all that follows through the period and inserting regarding the continuation of the program. .