Local Care for Veterans Act

Summary

Local Care for Veterans Act This bill amends the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to ensure that a veteran may elect to receive health care treatment and services in a qualifying non-VA facility if: (1) the veteran is enrolled in the VA health care system and resides not more than 50 miles from the nearest VA facility that the Secretary has identified in a prospectus level lease request as being deficient with respect to providing certain treatment or services or as needing expansion; and (2) the Secretary determines that such deficiency has not been resolved or such expansion has not occurred.

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• Introduced in House (text)

  Introduced in House · EN · 16 April 2015

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• Introduced in House (PDF)

  Introduced in House · EN · 16 April 2015

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 16 April 2015

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