Veterans Access to Health Care Act

Veterans Access to Health Care Act - Eliminates a $3 per round-trip deductible charged by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in connection with the veterans beneficiary travel program (a program authorizing a travel allowance or reimbursement for beneficiaries providing transportation for veterans to obtain medical care).

Directs the Secretary, in determining the amount of such allowance or reimbursement, to use the House of Representatives mileage reimbursement rate.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3948 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3948

To amend title 38, United States Code, to eliminate the deductible and 
change the method of determining the mileage reimbursement rate for the 
 beneficiary travel program administered by the Secretary of Veterans 
                                Affairs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 29, 2005

   Mr. Brown of Ohio (for himself and Mr. Strickland) 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 eliminate the deductible and 
change the method of determining the mileage reimbursement rate for the 
 beneficiary travel program administered by the Secretary of Veterans 
                                Affairs.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Veterans Access to Health Care 
Act''.

SEC. 2. VETERANS BENEFICIARY TRAVEL.

    (a) Elimination of Deductible.--Section 111(c) of title 38, United 
States Code, is repealed.
    (b) Determination of Mileage Reimbursement Rate.--Section 111(g) of 
such title is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), to read as follows:
    ``(1)(A) In determining the amount of allowance or reimbursement to 
be paid under this section, the Secretary shall use the House of 
Representatives mileage reimbursement rate.
    ``(B) For purposes of this section, the term `House of 
Representatives mileage reimbursement rate' means the maximum mileage 
reimbursement rate for Members of the House of Representatives 
established by the Committee on House Administration of the House of 
Representatives pursuant to House Resolution 457, Ninety-second 
Congress, agreed to July 21, 1971, as enacted into permanent law by 
chapter IV of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1972 (2 U.S.C. 
57).''; and
            (2) by striking paragraphs (3) and (4).
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this Act shall apply 
with respect to travel expenses incurred after the expiration of the 
60-day period that begins on the date of the enactment of this Act.
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