HR 1863 · 114th Congress · Armed Forces and National Security
Local Care for Veterans Act
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Introduced2
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Senate5
EnactedLatest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.(2015-05-01)
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Local Care for Veterans Act This bill amends the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to ensure that a veteran may elect to receive health care treatment and services in a qualifying non-VA facility if: (1) the veteran is enrolled in the VA health care system and resides not more than 50 miles from the nearest VA facility that the Secretary has identified in a prospectus level lease request as being deficient with respect to providing certain treatment or services or as needing expansion; and (2) the Secretary determines that such deficiency has not been resolved or such expansion has not occurred.…
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