To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to ensure veterans may obtain a physical copy of a certain form by mail or at medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5697 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5697

  To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to ensure veterans may 
    obtain a physical copy of a certain form by mail or at medical 
    facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 26, 2023

  Mr. Bilirakis (for himself and Mr. Pappas) introduced the following 
     bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to ensure veterans may 
    obtain a physical copy of a certain form by mail or at medical 
    facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs, 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. REQUIREMENT FOR SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS TO MAKE 
              AVAILABLE TO VETERANS PHYSICAL COPIES OF COVERED FORM FOR 
              REIMBURSEMENT OF CERTAIN TRAVEL EXPENSES.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall prescribe 
regulations to ensure that--
            (1) a veteran may, for the purposes of submitting a claim 
        for the reimbursement of expenses for travel under section 111 
        of title 38, United States Code--
                    (A) obtain a physical copy of the covered form--
                            (i) by mail, upon the request of such 
                        veteran; or
                            (ii) at any medical facility of the 
                        Department; and
                    (B) submit the covered form at any such medical 
                facility; and
            (2) any such medical facility to which a veteran submits 
        the covered form--
                    (A) evaluates such covered form; and
                    (B) processes such claim associated with such 
                covered form, if applicable.
    (b) Covered Form Defined.--In this section, the term ``covered 
form'' means Department of Veterans Affairs Form 10-3452 (or any 
successor document).
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