United States · Bill · HR
H.R. 5097 (113th)
Local Care for Veterans Act
Introduced
14 July 2014
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Status
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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12 August 2025
Summary
Local Care for Veterans Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to ensure that a veteran may elect to receive health care treatment and services under the Patient-Centered Community Care program 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 (text)
Introduced in House · EN · 14 July 2014
Introduced in House (PDF)
Introduced in House · EN · 14 July 2014
Introduced in House
summary · EN · 14 July 2014
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- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/5097
- Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/5097