Veterans' Health Care Act of 1984
PL 98-528 (H.R.5618), enacted 10/19/1984

98 STAT. 2686 
PUBLIC LAW 98-528—OCT. 19, 1984 
Public Law 98-528 
98th Congress 
An Act 
Oct. 19, 1984 
[H.R. 5618] 
Veterans' 
Health Care Act 
of 1984. 
38 u s e 10] note. 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to revise and improve Veterans' Administra-
tion health programs and to improve security and law enforcement at Veterans' 
Administration facilities; and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SHORT TITLE; R E F E R E N C E S TO TITLE 38, UNITED STATES CODE 
SECTION 1. (a) This Act may be cited as the "Veterans' Health 
Care Act of 1984". 
(b) Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in this Act 
an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms of an amendment to, 
or repeal of, a section or other provision, the reference shall be 
considered to be made to a section or other provision of title 38, 
United States Code. 
TITLE I—HEALTH PROGRAMS 
SECURITY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AT VETERANS ADMINISTRATION 
FACILITIES 
38 use 218. 
SEC. 101. (a)(1) Section 218 is amended to read as follows: 
"§ 218. Security and law enforcement on property under the juris-
diction of the Veterans' Administration 
Regulations. 
"(a)(1) The Administrator shall prescribe regulations to provide 
for the maintenance of law and order and the protection of persons 
and property on land and in buildings under the jurisdiction of the 
Veterans' Administration and not under the control of the Adminis-
trator of General Services (hereinafter in this section referred to as 
'Veterans' Administration property'). 
"(2) Such regulations shall include— 
"(A) rules for conduct on Veterans' Administration property; 
and 
"(B) the penalties, within the limits specified in paragraph (3) 
of this subsection, for violations of such rules. 
Penalties. 
"(3) Whoever violates any rule prescribed under paragraph (2)(A) 
of this subsection shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned 
not more than six months (or such lesser amount or period of time 
as the Administrator prescribes in the regulations prescribed under 
this subsection), or both. 
"(4) The rules prescribed under clause (A) of paragraph (2) of this 
subsection, together with the penalties for violations of such rules, 
shall be posted conspicuously on property to which they apply. 
"(5) The Administrator shall consult with the Attorney General 
before prescribing regulations under this subsection. 
"(b)(1) Veterans' Administration employees who are Veterans' 
Administration police officers shall enforce Federal laws and the 
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rules prescribed under subsection (a)(2)(A) of this section on Veter-
ans' Administration property. Subject to regulations prescribed 
under paragraph (2) of this subsection, a Veterans' Administration 
police officer may make arrests on Veterans' Administration 
property for a violation of any Federal law or of any such rule. 
"(2) The Administrator shall prescribe regulations with respect to 
Regulations. 
Veterans' Administration police officers. Such regulations shall 
include— 
"(A) policies with respect to the exercise by Veterans' Admin-
istration police officers of the enforcement and arrest authori-
ties provided by paragraph (1) of this subsection; 
"(B) the scope and duration of training that is required for 
Veterans' Administration police officers, with particular em-
phasis on dealing with situations involving patients; and 
"(C) rules limiting the carrying and use of weapons by Veter-
ans' Administration police officers. 
"(3) The Administrator shall consult with the Attorney General 
before prescribing regulations under clause (A) of paragraph (2) of 
this subsection. 
"(4) Rates of basic pay for Veterans' Administration police officers 
may be increased by the Administrator under section 4107(g) of this 
title. 
"(c)(1) The Administrator may pay an allowance under this sub-
section for the purchase of uniforms to any Veterans' Administra-
tion police officer who is required to wear a prescribed uniform in 
the performance of official duties. 
"(2) The amount of the allowance that the Administrator may pay 
under this subsection— 
"(A) may be based on estimated average costs or actual costs; 
"(B) may vary by geographic regions; and 
"(C) except as provided in paragraph (3) of this paragraph, 
may not exceed $200 in a fiscal year for any police officer. 
"(3)(A) The amount of an allowance under this subsection may be 
increased to an amount up to $400 for not more than one fiscal year 
in the case of any Veterans' Administration police officer. In the 
case of a person who is appointed as a Veterans' Administration 
police officer on or after the date on which the Administrator 
initially exercises the authority granted by this paragraph, an 
allowance in an amount established under this paragraph shall be 
paid at the beginning of such person's employment as such an 
officer. In the case of any other Veterans' Administration police 
officer, an allowance in an amount established under this paragraph 
shall be paid upon the request of the officer. 
"(B) A police officer who resigns as a police officer less than one 
year after receiving an allowance in an amount established under 
this paragraph shall repay to the Veterans' Administration a pro 
rata share of the amount paid, based on the number of months the 
officer was actually employed as such an officer during the twelve-
month period following the date on which such officer began such 
employment or the date on which the officer submitted a request for 
such allowance, as the case may be. 
"(4) An allowance may not be paid to a Veterans' Administration 
police officer under this subsection and under section 5901 of title 5 
for the same fiscal year. 
"(d) The Administrator shall furnish Veterans' Administration 
police officers with such weapons and related equipment as the 
Administrator determines to be necessary and appropriate. 
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38 u s e 218 note. 
97 Stat. 1001. 
38 u s e 4107. 
Report. 
"(e) With the permission of the head of the agency concerned, the 
Administrator may use the facilities and services of Federal, State, 
and local law enforcement agencies when it is economical and in the 
public interest to do so.". 
(2) The provisions of section 218 of title 38, United States Code, 
other than clause (2) of subsection (a) of such section, as in effect on 
the day before the date of the enactment of this Act shall remain in 
effect until the date on which the Administrator of Veterans' Af-
fairs prescribes the regulations required to be prescribed by subsec-
tions (a) and (b) of such section as amended by subsection (a) of this 
section. 
(3) The item relating to such section in the table of sections at the 
beginning of chapter 3 of such title is amended to read as follows: 
"218. Security and law enforcement on property under the jurisdiction of the Veter-
ans' Administration.". 
(b) Section 4107(g) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)— 
(A) by striking out "or" at the end of clause (A); 
(B) by striking out the comma and inserting in lieu 
thereof a semicolon and "or" at the end of subclause (iv) of 
clause (B); and 
(C) by inserting after clause (B) the following new clause: 
"(C) of employees who are Veterans' Administration police 
officers providing services under section 218 of this title,"; 
(2) by striking out "health-care" each place it appears in 
paragraphs (2)(A) and (4); and 
(3) by inserting "or (C)" after "(B)" in paragraph (4). 
(c) Not later than one hundred and eighty days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs 
shall submit to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate 
and House of Representatives a report on the implementation of the 
amendments made by this section. The report shall include (1) the 
regulations prescribed under section 218 of title 38, United States 
Code, as amended by subsection (a), and (2) a description of the 
methodology to be used to determine how the authority provided in 
the amendments made by subsection (b) is to be exercised. 
COMPTROLLER GENERAL REPORT ON MEDICAL PERSONNEL STAFFING 
LEVELS 
Report. 
SEC. 102. Section 5010(aX4)(C) is amended to read as follows: 
38 use 5010. 
"(C) Whenever the Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget is required to submit a certification under subparagraph (B) 
of this paragraph, the Comptroller General shall submit to the 
appropriate committees of the Congress a report stating the Comp-
troller General's opinion as to whether the Director has complied 
with the requirements of that subparagraph. The Comptroller Gen-
eral shall submit the report not later than fifteen days after the end 
of the period specified in such subparagraph for the Director to 
submit the certification.". 
97 Stat. 730. 
38 u s e 601. 
38 u s e 601 note. 
CONTRACT HEALTH CARE IN PUERTO RICO AND THE VIRGIN ISLANDS 
SEC. 103. (a) Section 601(4)(C)(v) is amended by striking out "Sep-
tember 30, 1984" and inserting in lieu thereof "September 30, 1985". 
(b) Any action by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs in enter-
ing into a contract applicable to the period beginning on October 1, 
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1984, and ending on the date of the enactment of this Act for the 
provision of care described in subclause (v) of section 601(4)(C) of title 
38, United States Code, and any waiver described in that subclause 
made by the Administrator that is applicable to that period, is 
hereby ratified v/ith respect to that period. 
EXTENSION OF AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR GERIATRIC 
RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND CLINICAL ACTIVITIES 
SEC. 104. Section 4101(f)(3) is amended by striking out the first 
38 USC 4101. 
sentence and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "There are 
authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for the 
support of the research and education activities of the centers 
established pursuant to paragraph (1) of this subsection.". 
ACQUISITION OF PROPERTIES FOR USE AS STATE VETERANS' HOMES 
SEC. 105. Subchapter III of chapter 81 is amended as follows: 
(1) Section 5032 is amended by inserting "(or to acquire 
38 USC 5032. 
facilities to be used as State home facilities)" after "State home 
facilities". 
(2) Section 5034 is amended by inserting "or acquired" after 
38 USC 5034. 
"constructed" each place it appears. 
(3) Section 5035 is amended— 
38 use 5035. 
(A) by inserting "(or acquisition of a facility to be used as 
a State home facility)" in the first sentence of subsection (a) 
after "State home facilities"; 
(B) by inserting "(or of the estimated cost of facility 
acquisition and construction)" in clause (1) of subsection (a) 
after "cost of construction"; 
(C) by inserting "(or for facility acquisition and construc-
tion of the project)" in clause (6) of subsection (a) after 
"construction of the project"; 
(D) by striking out "sections 276a through 276a-5 of title 
40" in clause (8) of subsection (a) and inserting in lieu 
thereof "the Act of March 3,1931 (40 U.S.C. 276a—276a-5)"; 
(E) by striking out "and" at the end of clause (7), by 
striking out the period at the end of clause (8) and inserting 
in lieu thereof a comma and "and", and by inserting after 
clause (8) the following new clause: 
"(9) in the case of a project for acquisition of a facility, 
reasonable assurance that the estimated total cost of acquisition 
of the facility and of any expansion, remodeling, and alteration 
of the acquired facility will not be greater than the estimated 
cost of construction of an equivalent new facility."; 
(F) by inserting "(or of the estimated cost of facility 
acquisition and construction)" in clause (2) of subsection (b) 
after "cost of construction"; 
(G) by striking out "the construction o f in clause (4) of 
subsection (b) and inserting in lieu thereof "the carrying 
out of; and 
(H) in subsection (d)(1)— 
(i) by inserting "(or of the estimated cost of facility 
acquisition and construction)" in the first sentence 
after "cost of construction"; 
(ii) by striking out "constructed" in the second sen-
tence and inserting in lieu thereof "carried out"; 
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(iii) by striking out "construction" in the third sen-
tence and inserting in lieu thereof "the project"; and 
(iv) by striking out "the construction o f in the 
fourth sentence. 
38 use 5036. 
(4) Section 5036 is amended— 
(A) by striking out "for construction" after "completion of 
any project"; 
(B) by inserting "acquisition," after "in the case of the"; 
(C) by striking out "value of such construction" and 
inserting in lieu thereof "value of such project"; 
(D) by striking out "for such construction" after "assist-
ance provided for"; and 
(E) by striking out "twenty" both places it appears and 
inserting in lieu thereof "20". 
38 use 5037. 
(5) Section 5037 is amended by inserting "or acquired" after 
"constructed". 
COORDINATION OF VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION HEALTH-CARE SERVICES 
WITH STATE AND LOCAL PROGRAMS 
38 use 220. 
SEC. 106. (a) Section 220 is amended— 
(1) by inserting "(a)" before "The Administrator"; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new subsection: 
"Oo) The Administrator shall seek to achieve the effective coordi-
nation of the provision, under laws administered by the Veterans' 
Administration, of benefits and services (and information about 
such benefits and services) with appropriate programs (and informa-
tion about such programs) conducted by State and local governmen-
tal agencies and by private entities at the State and local level. In 
carrying out this subsection, the Administrator shall place special 
emphasis on veterans who are sixty-five years of age or older.". 
(b)(1) The heading of such section is amended to read as follows: 
"§ 220. Coordination and promotion of other programs affecting 
veterans and their dependents". 
(2) The item relating to such section in the table of sections at the 
beginning of chapter 3 is amended to read as follows: 
"220. Coordination and promotion of other programs affecting veterans and their 
dependents.". 
MEDICAL AND REHABIUTATIVE DEVICES 
38 use 617. 
SEC. 107. Section 617 is amended— 
(1) by inserting "(a)" before "The Administrator"; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new subsection: 
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) The Administrator may furnish devices for assisting in over-
coming the handicap of deafness (including telecaptioning television 
decoders) to any veteran who is profoundly deaf and is entitled to 
compensation on account of hearing impsdrment.". 
AUTHORITY TO ADJUST RATES OF PAY FOR CERTAIN PSYCHOLOGISTS 
97 Stat. 1000. 
SEC. 108. Section 4104 is amended— 
38 use 4104. 
(1) by inserting "(other than those described in paragraph 
(3))" after "psychologists" in paragraph (2); and 
(2) by striking out "Certified" in paragraph (3) and inserting 
in lieu thereof "Clinical or counseling psychologists who hold 
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diplomas as diplomates in psychology from an accrediting 
authority approved by the Administrator, certified". 
WAIVER OF MANDATORY REDUCTIONS IN MILITARY RETIRED PAY FOR 
CERTAIN PHYSICIANS 
SEC. 109. Section 4107 is amended by adding at the end the 
following new subsection: 
"(i) The Administrator may authorize an exception to the restric-
tions in subsections (a), (b), and (c) of section 5532 of title 5 if 
necessary to meet special or emergency employment needs which 
result from a severe shortage of well-qualified candidates in physi-
cian positions which otherwise cannot be readily met.". 
38 u s e 4107. 
POST-TRAUMATIC-STRESS DISORDER 
SEC. no. (a)(1) The Chief Medical Director of the Veterans' 
Administration may designate special programs within the Depart-
ment of Medicine and Surgery for the diagnosis and treatment of 
post-traumatic-stress disorder (hereinafter in this section referred to 
as "PTSD"). 
(2) The Chief Medical Director shall direct (A) that (in addition to 
providing diagnostic and treatment services for PTSD) Veterans' 
Administration programs designated under paragraph (1) (herein-
after in this section referred to as "designated PTSD programs") 
carry out activities to promote the education and training of health-
care personnel (including health-care personnel not working for the 
Veterans' Administration or the Federal Government) in the causes, 
diagnosis, and treatment of PTSD, and (B) that (when appropriate) 
the provision of treatment services under such program be coordi-
nated with the provision of readjustment counseling services under 
section 612A of title 38, United States Code. 
(b)(1) The Chief Medical Director shall establish in the Depart-
ment of Medicine and Surgery a Special Committee on Post-Trau-
matic-Stress Disorder (hereinafter in this section referred to as the 
"Special Committee"). The Chief Medical Director shall appoint 
qualified employees of the Department to serve on the Special 
Committee. 
(2) The Special Committee shall assess, and carry out a continuing 
assessment of, the capacity of the Veterans' Administration to 
provide diagnostic and treatment services for PTSD to veterans 
eligible for health care furnished by the Veterans' Administration. 
(3) The Special Committee shall also advise the Chief Medical 
Director regarding the development of policies, the provision of 
guidance, and the coordination of services for the diagnosis and 
treatment of PTSD (A) in designated PTSD programs, (B) in inpa-
tient psychiatric programs and outpatient mental health programs 
other than designated PTSD programs, and (C) in readjustment 
counseling programs of the Veterans' Administration. 
(4) The Special Committee shall also make recommendations to 
the Chief Medical Director for guidance with respect to PTSD 
regarding— 
(A) appropriate diagnostic and treatment methods; 
(B) referral for and coordination of followup care; 
(C) the evaluation of PTSD treatment programs; 
(D) the conduct of research concerning such diagnosis and 
treatment (taking into account the provisions of subsection (c)); 
38 u s e 612A 
note. 
Special 
Committee on 
Post-Traumatic-
Stress Disorder, 
establishment. 
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National Center 
on Post-
Traumatic-
Stress Disorder, 
establishment. 
Report. 
(E) special programs of education and training for employees 
of the Department of Medicine and Surgery and the Depart-
ment of Veterans' Benefits (also taking into account such 
provisions); 
(F) the appropriate allocation of resources for all such activi-
ties; and 
(G) any specific steps that should be taken to improve such 
diagnosis and treatment and to correct any deficiencies in the 
operations of designated PTSD programs. 
(c) The Chief Medical Director shall establish and operate in the 
Department of Medicine and Surgery a National Center on Post-
Traumatic-Stress Disorder. The National Center (1) shall carry out 
and promote the training of health care and related personnel in, 
and research into, the causes and diagnosis of PTSD and the treat-
ment of veterans for PTSD, and (2) shall serve as a resource center 
for, and promote and seek to coordinate the exchange of information 
regarding, all research and training activities carried out by the 
Veterans' Administration, and by other Federal and non-Federal 
entities, with respect to PTSD. 
(d) The Chief Medical Director shall regularly compile and publish 
the results of research that has been conducted relating to PTSD. 
(e)(1) Not later than March 1, 1985, the Administrator shall 
submit to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and 
House of Representatives a report on the implementation of this 
section. The report shall include the following: 
(A) A list of the members of the Special Committee. 
(B) A list of all designated PTSD programs and other 
programs providing treatment for PTSD, together with a de-
scription of the resources that have been allocated for the 
development and operation of each such program, a description 
of the education and training that has been provided for Veter-
ans' Administration health-care personnel in such programs 
and elsewhere within the Veterans' Administration in the diag-
nosis and treatment of PTSD, and specification of the funding 
that has been allocated to each such program and elsewhere 
within the Veterans' Administration to support research relat-
ing to PTSD. 
(C) The assessment of the Chief Medical Director of the 
Veterans' Administration, after consultation with the Special 
Committee, regarding the capability of the Veterans' Adminis-
tration to meet the needs for inpatient and outpatient PTSD 
diagnosis and treatment (both through designated PTSD pro-
grams and otherwise) of veterans who served in the Republic of 
Vietnam during the Vietnam era, former prisoners of war, and 
other veterans eligible for health care from the Veterans' Ad-
ministration and the efficacy of the treatment so provided, as 
well as a description of the results of any evaluations that have 
been made of PTSD treatment programs. 
(D) The plans of the Special Committee for further assess-
ments of the capability of the Veterans' Administration to 
diagnose and treat veterans with PTSD. 
(E) The recommendations made by the Special Committee to 
the Chief Medical Director and the views of the Chief Medical 
Director on such recommendations. 
(F) A summary of the results of research conducted by the 
Veterans' Administration relating to PTSD. 
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(G) A description of the steps taken, plans made (and a 
timetable for their execution), and resources to be applied to 
implement subsections (b) and (c). 
(H) The assessment of the Administrator of the capacity of the 
Veterans' Administration to meet in all geographic areas of the 
United States the needs described in subparagraph (C) and any 
plans and timetable for increasing that capacity (including the 
costs of such action). 
(2) Not later than February 1, 1986, and February 1 of each of the 
three following years, the Administrator shall submit to the Com-
mittees on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and House of Representa-
tives a report containing information updating the reports submitted 
under this subsection before the submission of such report. 
Report. 
ALCOHOL AND DRUG TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION GUIDELINES 
SEC. 111. Not later than six months after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs (1) shall 
issue guidelines for the treatment and rehabilitation of veterans for 
alcohol or drug dependence or abuse disabilities under chapter 17 of 
title 38, United States Code, in facilities over which the Administra-
tor has direct jurisdiction, and (2) shall submit to the Committees on 
Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and House of Representatives a 
report (including a copy of such guidelines) on the implementation 
of this section. 
TITLE II—REPORTS 
Report. 
38 u s e 601 et 
seq. 
REPORT ON VETERANS ADMINISTRATION PROGRAMS FOR TERMINALLY 
ILL VETERANS 
SEC. 201. (a) Not later than September 30, 1985, the Administrator 
of Veterans' Affairs shall submit to the Committees on Veterans' 
Affairs of the Senate and House of Representatives a report on 
programs of the Veterans' Administration to furnish palliative care, 
supportive counseling, and other medical services to terminally ill 
veterans and, pursuant to section 601(6)(B) of title 38, United States 
Code, supportive counseling to members of such veterans' families. 
(b) The report required by subsection (a) shall include the 
following: 
(1) A review of Veterans' Administration policies and guide-
lines on the provision of care, counseling, and services described 
in subsection (a). 
(2) A review of the care, counseling, and services furnished, 
including the treatment modalities used and services furnished 
by the Veterans' Administration. 
(3) An analysis and a comparison of the care, counseling, and 
services furnished with respect to terminally ill veterans in 
hospice and other Veterans' Administration programs, includ-
ing a comparison of the routine and ancillary services, of the 
duration of inpatient and outpatient treatment and hospital-
based home care, and of the cost of care furnished in such 
programs. 
(4) An explanation of how the care, counseling, and services 
described in subsection (a) are or will be included in the overall 
plans of the Veterans' Administration for providing health care 
to older veterans in the future and the extent to which plans to 
furnish hospice care are included in such plans. 
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(5) A review of any steps taken to arrange for the exchange of 
information between Veterans' Administration facilities provid-
ing the care, counseling, and services described in subsection (a) 
and non-Veterans' Administration facilities providing similar 
care, counseling, and services. 
VETERANS RESIDING IN REMOTE GEOGRAPHIC AREAS 
SEC. 202. (a) The Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) Many veterans with service-connected disabilities and 
other veterans eligible for certain health-care services from the 
Veterans' Administration, within the limits of Veterans' Ad-
ministration facilities, reside in areas of the United States that 
are geographically remote from health-care facilities over which 
the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs has direct jurisdiction. 
(2) For many such veterans such health-care facilities are 
geographically inaccessible and for many other such veterans 
the inconvenience of travel to such facilities discourages 
them from seeking health-care services from the Veterans' 
Administration. 
(3) A study conducted by the Administrator of eligible veter-
ans residing in remote areas and the use by those veterans of 
Veterans' Administration health-care services would provide 
useful information on the feasibility and appropriateness of 
alternative approaches to furnishing health-care services to 
such veterans. 
Study. 
(b)(1) The Administrator shall carry out a study to develop infor-
mation about veterans who reside in remote areas and are eligible 
for health-care services from the Veterans' Administration and to 
develop alternative approaches that could be adopted to furnish 
such veterans with such services. In carrying out the study, the 
Administrator shall develop the following information: 
(A) To the maximum extent feasible, statistics on the number 
of eligible veterans who, during fiscal year 1985— 
(i) reside less than fifty miles from the nearest Veterans' 
Administration medical facility, 
(ii) reside between fifty miles and one hundred miles from 
the nearest Veterans' Administration medical facility, 
(iii) reside between one hundred miles and two hundred 
miles from the nearest Veterans' Administration medical 
facility, and 
(iv) reside more than two hundred miles from the nearest 
Veterans' Administration medical facility. 
(B) Statistics, shown by each group of veterans described in 
clause (A), on the numbers of eligible veterans who, during 
fiscal year 1985— 
(i) use Veterans' Administration medical facilities, 
(ii) receive inpatient care in such facilities (including the 
typical lengths of stay of such veterans in such facilities), 
(iii) receive outpatient care from such facilities, and 
(iv) receive foUowup health-care services from such 
facilities. 
(C) Such additional statistics and such additional information 
as the Administrator considers appropriate. 
(D) Breakdowns of the statistics described in clauses (A) and 
(B) with respect to age, service connection, and financial need 
regarding the applicable veteran populations. 
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(2) Not later than January 1, 1986, the Administrator shall submit 
Reports. 
to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and House of 
Representatives a full report on the study under paragraph (1). The 
report shall include— 
(A) the statistics and breakdown developed and information 
gathered under that paragraph; 
(B) the Administrator's findings on the extent of the need for 
the Veterans' Administration to increase health-care services in 
remote areas; and 
(C) the Administrator's 
findings 
and 
recommendations 
regarding the advantages and disadvantages of the Veterans' 
Administration contracting for and making other arrangements 
for the furnishing of health-care services to eligible veterans in 
remote areas. 
(3) Not later than July 1, 1986, the Administrator shall submit to 
such committees a report describing an experimental program that 
could feasibly be carried out through projects in five remote areas, 
selected on the basis of the information and findings included in the 
report under paragraph (2), to demonstrate alternative approaches 
for the Veterans' Administration to furnish health-care services to 
eligible veterans in remote areas. The report shall include a descrip-
tion of the health-care services, and a detailed breakdown of the 
costs for them, that could be furnished under such an experimental 
program to such veterans in each such area, along with the recom-
mendations (and the reasons therefor) of the Administrator regard-
ing whether any such project should be carried out and such 
recommendations for legislative or administrative action as the 
Administrator considers appropriate in light of the information 
contained in the report. 
TITLE III—MISCELLANEOUS 
MODIFICATION OF REVERSIONARY INTEREST IN CERTAIN LAND, LOS 
ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 
SEC. 301. (a) The Administrator of Veterans' Affairs shall execute 
Real property. 
such legal documents as are necessary to permit the use of the real 
property described in subsection (b) (or any portion of such property) 
for educational or cultural purposes in addition to the use of such 
property as a research and medical center and for allied purposes. 
The Administrator may carry out the preceding sentence subject to 
such terms and conditions as the Administrator requires in order to 
protect the interests of the United States. 
(b) The real property referred to in subsection (a) is the property 
transferred to the State of California for the use of the tJniversity of 
California by a quitclaim deed dated December 10, 1948, executed by 
the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs under the Act entitled "An 
Act to authorize the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to transfer a 
portion of the Veterans' Administration center at Los Angeles, 
California, to the State of California for the use of the University of 
California", approved June 19, 1948 (62 Stat. 559), and recorded in 
the land records of the County of Los Angeles, California, at page 
307 of book 29032. 
(c) Any document executed to carry out subsection (a) of this 
section shall provide that the property involved shall revert to the 
United States if it ceases to be used as a research and medical center 
or for educational or cultural purposes. 
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NAMING OF V E T E R A N S ' ADMINISTRATION MEDICAL CENTERS 
SEC. 302. (a) The Veterans' Administration Medical Center in 
Murfreesboro, Tennessee, shall after the date of the enactment of 
this Act be known and designated as the "Alvin C. York Veterans' 
Administration Medical Center". Any reference to such medical 
center in any law, regulation, map, document, record, or other paper 
of the United States shall after such date be deemed to be a 
reference to the Alvin C. York Veterans' Administration Medical 
Center. 
(b) The Veterans' Administration Medical Center in Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin, shall after the date of the enactment of this Act be 
known and designated as the "Clement J. Zablocki Veterans' Ad-
ministration Medical Center". Any reference to such medical center 
in any law, regulation, map, document, record, or other paper of the 
United States shall after such date be deemed to be a reference to 
the Clement J. Zablocki Veterans' Administration Medical Center. 
Approved October 19, 1984, 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 5618 (S. 2514): 
HOUSE REPORT No. 98-779 (Comm. on Veterans' Affairs). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 130 (1984): 
May 21, considered and passed House. 
Aug. 9, considered and passed Senate, amended, in lieu of S. 2514. 
Oct. 2, House concurred in Senate amendments with amendments. 
Oct. 3, Senate concurred in House amendments. 
WEEKLY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, Vol. 20, No. 42 (1984): 
Oct. 19, Presidential statement.