A joint resolution making emergency additional funds available by transfer for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1987, for the Emergency Food and Shelter Program of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
PL 100-6 (H.J.Res.102), enacted 02/12/1987

101 STAT. 92 
PUBLIC LAW 100-6—FEB. 12, 1987 
Public Law 100-6 
100th Congress 
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Joint Resolution 
Feb 12 1987 
Making emergency additional funds available by transfer for the flscal year ending 
September 30, 1987, for the Emergency Food and Shelter Program of the Federal 
[H.J. Res. 102] 
Emergency Management Agency. 
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sum is 
transferred, out of funds previously appropriated, for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 1987, namely: 
FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY 
DISASTER RELIEF 
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(RESCISSION) 
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Of the funds included under this head in the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development-Independent Agencies Appropria-
100 Stat. 1783. 
tions Act, 1987, and made available by Public Laws 99-500 and 
100 Stat. 3341. 
99-591, $7,475,000 are rescinded. 
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EMERGENCY FOOD AND SHELTER PROGRAM 
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(BY TRANSFER) 
For an additional amount for the "Emergency Food and Shelter 
Program", $50,000,000, which shall be derived by transfer from the 
Federal Emergency Management Agency appropriation "Disaster 
relief": Provided, That of such amount $5,000,000 shall be trans-
ferred to the Veterans' Administration medical care account to be 
available for the purpose of section 2 of this joint resolution. 
TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION FOR CHRONICALLY MENTALLY ILL 
VETERANS 
SEC. 2. (a) Subchapter II of chapter 17 of title 38, United States 
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section: 
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"§ 620C. Community-based psychiatric residential treatment for 
chronically mentally ill veterans 
"(a) For the purposes of this section: 
"(1) The term 'case management' includes the coordination 
and facilitation of all services furnished to a veteran by the 
Veterans' Administration, either directly or through a contract, 
including, but not limited to, screening, assessment of needs, 
planning, referral (including referral for services to be fur-
nished by either the Veterans' Administration or another 
entity), monitoring, reassessment, and followup. 
"(2) The term 'contract facility' means any facility which has 
been awarded a contract under subsection (b)(1) of this section. 
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"(3) The term 'eligible veteran' means a veteran who, at the 
time of referral to a contract facility— 
"(A) is being furnished hospital, domiciliary, or nursing 
home care by the Administrator for a chronic mental ill-
ness disability; or 
"(B) is homeless and has a chronic mental illness disabil-
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ity;or 
"(C) is a veteran described in section 612(a)(1)(B) of this 
title and has a chronic mental illness disability. 
"(b)(1) The Administrator, in furnishing hospital, nursing home, Contracts. 
and domiciliary care and medical and rehabilitative services under 
this chapter, may contract for care and treatment and rehabilitative 
services in halfway houses, therapeutic communities, psychiatric 
residential treatment centers, and other community-based treat-
ment facilities for eligible veterans suffering from chronic mental 
illness disabilities. 
"(2) Before furnishing such care and services to any veteran 
through a contract facility, the Administrator shall approve (in 
accordance with criteria which the Administrator shall prescribe by 
regulation) the quality and effectiveness of the program operated by 
such facility for the purpose for which such veteran is to be fur-
nished such care and services. 
"(c) In the case of each eligible veteran provided care and services 
under this section, the Administrator shall designate a Veterans' 
Administration health-care employee to provide case management 
services. 
"(d) In furnishing care and services under this section, the 
Administrator shall accord priority for such care and services in the 
following order: 
"(1) To any veteran for a service-connected chronic mental 
illness disability. 
"(2) To any veteran with a disability rated as service-
connected. 
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"(3J TO any veteran for a non-service-connected disability, if 
the veteran is unable to defray the expenses of necessary care as 
determined under section 622(a)(1) of this title. 
"(e) The Administrator may provide in-kind assistance (through Contracts, 
the services of Veterans' Administration employees and the sharing 
of other Veterans' Administration resources) to a contract facility 
under this section. Any such in-kind assistance shall be provided 
under a contract between the Veterans' Administration and the 
contract facility. The Administrator may provide such assistance 
only for use solely in the furnishing of appropriate services under 
this section and only if, under such contract, the Veterans' Adminis-
tration receives reimbursement for the full cost of such assistance, 
including the cost of services and supplies and normal depreciation 
and amortization of equipment. Such reimbursement may be made 
by reduction in the charges to the United States or by payment to 
the United States. Any funds received through such reimbursement 
shall be credited to funds allotted to the Veterans' Administration 
facility that provided the assistance. 
"(f) Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this Reports, 
section, the Administrator shall submit to the Committees on Veter-
ans' Affairs of the Senate and the House of Representatives a report 
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on the experience under this section. The report shall include the 
Administrator's evaluation and findings regarding— 
Contracts. 
"(1) the quality of care furnished to participating veterans 
through contract facilities; 
"(2) any health advantages that may result from furnishing 
such care and services to veterans in such contract facilities 
rather than in inpatient facilities over which the Administrator 
has direct jurisdiction; 
"(3) the effectiveness of the use of contract facilities under 
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this section in enabling the participating veterans to live 
outside of Veterans' Administration inpatient facilities and to 
achieve independence in living and functioning in their 
communities; 
"(4) the health advantages and cost effectiveness of the use of 
contract facilities under this section to furnish shelter and 
health care to homeless veterans who are suffering from 
chronic mental illness disabilities; 
"(5) the cost-effectiveness of furnishing such care through 
contract facilities under this section, including the effect on the 
average daily census in the Veterans' Administration hospitals, 
nursing homes, and domiciliary facilities participating in the 
program (taking into account whether the beds previously occu-
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pied by the participating veterans were subsequently occupied 
by other eligible veterans or remained unoccupied) and the 
effect on the numbers of Veterans' Administration staff em-
ployed at such facilities; and 
"(6) any plans for administrative action, and any rec-
ommendations for legislation, that the Administrator considers 
appropriate to include in such report.", 
(b) The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 17 of title 38, 
United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item relating 
to section 620B the following new item: 
"620C. Community-based psychiatric residential treatment for chronically mentally 
ill veterans.". 
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(c) Any contract authority or other spending authority granted by 
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this section shall be limited to $5,000,000. 
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SEC. 3. The recommendations of the President relating to rates of 
pay for offices and positions within the purview of section 225(f) of 
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the Federal Salary Act of 1967, as included (pursuant to section 
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225(h) of such Act) in the budget transmitted to the Congress for 
fiscal year 1988, are disapproved. 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
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FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICE 
TEMPORARY EMERGpNCY FOOD ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 
(Disapproval of Deferral) 
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The Congress disapproves the proposed deferral D87-33, in the 
amount of $28,559,000, relating to the Department of Agriculture, 
Food and Nutrition Service, Temporary Emergency Food Assistance 
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Program, as set forth in the message of January 28, 1987, which was 
transmitted to the Congress by the President. The disapproval shall Effective date. 
be effective upon enactment into law of this joint resolution and the 
amount of the proposed deferral disapproved herein shall be made 
available for obligation. 
Approved February 12, 1987. 
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LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.J. Res. 102: 
HOUSE REPORTS: No. 100-4 (Comm. on Appropriations). 
SENATE REPORTS: No. 100-5 (Comm. on Appropriations). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 133 (1987): 
Jan. 27, considered and passed House. 
Jan. 29, considered and passed Senate, amended. 
Feb. 4, House concurred in Senate amendments. 
WEEKLY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, Vol. 23 (1987): 
Feb. 12, Presidential statement.