HR 1863 · 114th Congress · Armed Forces and National Security

Local Care for Veterans Act

Introduced 2015-04-16· Sponsored by Rep. Boustany, Charles W., Jr. [R-LA-3]· House

Bill Progress

Introduced
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Committee
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House Vote
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Senate
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Enacted
Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.(2015-05-01)

Plain Language Summary

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] 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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Cosponsors (1)

1 Democrat