A bill to extend eligibility for hospital care, medical services, and nursing home and domiciliary care for certain veterans who served in a theater of combat operations.

Extends from 5 to 10 years after discharge or release from active duty after January 28, 2003, a combat veteran's eligibility for veterans' hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care for illnesses that have not been medically proven to be attributable to such veteran's service.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2979 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2979

To extend eligibility for hospital care, medical services, and nursing 
home and domiciliary care for certain veterans who served in a theater 
                         of combat operations.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            December 4, 2014

 Mr. Walsh (for himself and Mr. Tester) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To extend eligibility for hospital care, medical services, and nursing 
home and domiciliary care for certain veterans who served in a theater 
                         of combat operations.

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

SECTION 1. EXTENSION OF ELIGIBILITY FOR HOSPITAL CARE, MEDICAL 
              SERVICES, AND NURSING HOME AND DOMICILIARY CARE FOR 
              CERTAIN VETERANS WHO SERVED IN A THEATER OF COMBAT 
              OPERATIONS.

    Section 1710(e)(3)(A) of title 38, United States Code, is amended 
by striking ``period of five years'' and inserting ``period of 10 
years''.
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