To amend title 38, United States Code, to extend and expand authority for the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide priority health care to veterans who were exposed to ionizing radiation or to Agent Orange.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Extends eligibility for hospital, nursing home, or outpatient medical care through the Department of Veterans Affairs to: (1) a veteran who may have been exposed to a herbicide agent while serving on active duty in Vietnam during the Vietnam era if the National Academy of Sciences has, in a report issued under the Agent Orange Act of 1991, made specified determinations regarding an association between exposure to a herbicide agent and occurrence of the veteran's disease; and (2) a radiation-exposed veteran if the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, based on advice of the Advisory Committee on Environmental Hazards, determines that there is credible evidence of a positive association between exposure to ionizing radiation and the veteran's disease. Terminates eligibility for herbicide-exposed veterans under this Act after September 30, 1996.…