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107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3796

  To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs to provide that the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, in 
   the management of health care services for veterans, shall place 
 certain low-income veterans in a higher health-care priority category.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 26, 2002

   Mrs. McCarthy of New York (for herself, Mr. Israel, Mr. King, Mr. 
   Gilman, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Fossella, Mr. Hinchey, and Mr. Rothman) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                           Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs to provide that the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, in 
   the management of health care services for veterans, shall place 
 certain low-income veterans in a higher health-care priority category.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS HEALTH CARE PRIORITY FOR 
              CERTAIN LOW-INCOME VETERANS BASED UPON REGIONAL INCOME 
              THRESHOLDS.

    (a) Change in Priority Category.--Effective October 2, 2002, 
section 1705(a) of title 38, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (5)--
                    (A) by inserting ``(A) who are'' after 
                ``Veterans'';
                    (B) by inserting ``and'' after ``through (4)''; and
                    (C) by inserting before the period at the end the 
                following: ``, or (B) who are described in section 
                1710(a)(3) of this title and who are eligible for 
                treatment as a low-income family under section 3(b) of 
                the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
                1437a(b)) for the area in which such veterans reside, 
                regardless of whether such veterans are treated as 
                single person families under paragraph (3)(A) of such 
                section 3(b) or as families under paragraph (3)(B) of 
                such section 3(b)'';
            (2) by striking paragraph (7); and
            (3) by redesignating paragraph (8) as paragraph (7) and in 
        that paragraph by striking ``paragraph (7)'' and inserting 
        ``paragraph (5)(B)''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Effective October 2, 2002, section 
1710(f)(4) of such title is amended by striking ``section 1705(a)(7)'' 
and inserting ``section 1705(a)(5)(B)''.
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