Protecting Access to Care for Veterans Act of 2017

Protecting Access to Care for Veterans Act of 2017

This bill authorizes and appropriates funds to be available without fiscal year limitation to the Department of Veterans Affairs for the sole purpose of providing veterans health care and medical services under the Veterans Choice Program.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1527 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1527

To appropriate amounts to the Department of Veterans Affairs to improve 
   the provision of health care to veterans, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 11, 2017

  Mr. McCain introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
              referred to the Committee on Appropriations

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                                 A BILL


 
To appropriate amounts to the Department of Veterans Affairs to improve 
   the provision of health care to veterans, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Protecting Access to Care for 
Veterans Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. APPROPRIATION OF AMOUNTS FOR VETERANS CHOICE PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--There is authorized to be appropriated, and is 
appropriated, to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, out of any funds in 
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $4,300,000,000 to be deposited 
in the Veterans Choice Fund under section 802 of the Veterans Access, 
Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 (Public Law 113-146; 38 U.S.C. 
1701 note).
    (b) Availability of Amounts.--The amount appropriated under 
subsection (a) shall be available for obligation or expenditure without 
fiscal year limitation.
    (c) Prohibition on Other Use.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs 
may not use or reprogram amounts appropriated under subsection (a) for 
any purpose other than to carry out the program under section 101 of 
the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 (Public Law 
113-146; 38 U.S.C. 1701 note).

SEC. 3. EMERGENCY DESIGNATIONS.

    (a) In General.--This Act is designated as an emergency requirement 
pursuant to section 4(g) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (2 
U.S.C. 933(g)).
    (b) Designation in Senate.--In the Senate, this Act is designated 
as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 403(a) of S. Con. Res. 
13 (111th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal 
year 2010.
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