To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand health care coverage provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs during the transition of members of the Armed Forces from service in the Armed Forces to civilian life, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-5024
Sponsor: full_name: Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho [D-MP-At Large]
Introduced: 2019-11-08
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Government information and archives

Health care coverage and access

Hospital care

Military personnel and dependents

Veterans' medical care
Latest action: action_date: 2019-12-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-11-08
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill expands eligibility for Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital care and medical services to recently discharged or released veterans during the one-year period following their discharge or release from active service or active reserve status. Such veterans shall be eligible for care even if they fail to enroll in the VA health care system.</p> <p>The Department of Labor must promote the expanded eligibility for such VA care to members of the Armed Forces transitioning from service in the Armed Forces to civilian life through the Transition Assistance Program. In addition, the VA must publish notification of the expanded eligibility for such care on a VA website.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5024 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES November 8, 2019 Mr. Sablan (for himself and Mrs. Radewagen ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs A BILL To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand health care coverage provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs during the transition of members of the Armed Forces from service in the Armed Forces to civilian life, and for other purposes.

1. Expansion of health care coverage for veterans (a) In general Section 1710(a)(1) of title 38, United States Code, is amended— (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking and at the end; (2) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as subparagraph (C); and (3) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the following new subparagraph (B): (B) to any veteran during the one-year period following the discharge or release of the veteran from active military, naval, or air service, or from active status (as defined in section 101 of title 10); and . (b) Patient enrollment system Section 1705(c) of such title is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (3) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the Secretary from providing hospital care and medical services to a veteran under section 1710(a)(1)(B) of this title during the period specified in such section notwithstanding the failure of the veteran to enroll in the system of patient enrollment established by the Secretary under subsection (a). . (c) Promotion of expanded eligibility (1) Transition Assistance Program (A) In general The Secretary of Labor, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, shall promote to members of the Armed Forces transitioning from service in the Armed Forces to civilian life through the Transition Assistance Program the expanded eligibility of veterans for health care under the laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs pursuant to the amendments made by this section. (B) Transition Assistance Program defined In this paragraph, the term Transition Assistance Program means the Transition Assistance Program under sections 1142 and 1144 of title 10, United States Code. (2) Publication by Department of Veterans Affairs Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall publish on a website of the Department of Veterans Affairs notification of the expanded eligibility of veterans for health care under the laws administered by the Secretary pursuant to the amendments made by this section.