Medal of Honor Health Care Equity Act of 2009

Medal of Honor Health Care Equity Act of 2009 - Assigns a priority status for Medal of Honor recipients equal to that of former prisoners of war or Purple Heart recipients with respect to the provision of veterans' hospital care and medical services provided through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office]
[H.R. 1197 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1197

   To assign a higher priority status for hospital care and medical 
services provided through the Department of Veterans Affairs to certain 
           veterans who are recipients of the medal of honor.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 25, 2009

   Mr. Mitchell (for himself, Mr. Roe of Tennessee, Mr. Filner, Mr. 
   Grijalva, Mr. Hall of New York, Ms. Watson, Mr. Michaud, and Mrs. 
  Tauscher) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To assign a higher priority status for hospital care and medical 
services provided through the Department of Veterans Affairs to certain 
           veterans who are recipients of the medal of honor.

    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 ``Medal of Honor Health Care Equity 
Act of 2009''.

SEC. 2. HIGHER PRIORITY STATUS FOR CERTAIN VETERANS WHO ARE MEDAL OF 
              HONOR RECIPIENTS.

    Section 1705(a)(3) of title 38, United States Code, is amended by 
inserting ``veterans who were awarded the medal of honor under section 
3741, 6241, or 8741 of title 10 or section 491 of title 14,'' after 
``Veterans who are former prisoners of war or who were awarded the 
Purple Heart,''.
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