[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 763 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 763

 To amend section 1729 of title 38, United States Code, to improve the 
   Department of Veterans Affairs medical care cost-recovery program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                April 2 (legislative day, March 3), 1993

Mr. Durenberger introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend section 1729 of title 38, United States Code, to improve the 
   Department of Veterans Affairs medical care cost-recovery program.

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

SECTION 1. PERMANENT AUTHORITY TO RECOVER COSTS FOR CARE PROVIDED TO 
              CERTAIN VETERANS WITH SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITIES.

    Section 1729(a)(2)(E) of title 38, United States Code, is amended 
by striking out ``August 1, 1994,''.

SEC. 2. CREDITING OF THIRD-PARTY PAYMENTS RECEIVED BY DEPARTMENT OF 
              VETERANS AFFAIRS.

    Paragraph (4) of section 1729(g) of title 38, United States Code, 
is amended to read as follows:
    ``(4)(A) The unobligated balance remaining in the Fund at the close 
of business on September 30 of any fiscal year which is in excess of 
any part of such balance that the Secretary determines is necessary in 
order to enable the Secretary to defray, during the next fiscal year, 
the expenses, payments, and costs described in paragraph (3) shall, not 
later than January 1 of the next fiscal year, be deposited to the 
credit of appropriations available for the operation of Department 
medical centers, to be allocated to each medical center in proportion 
to the amounts credited to the Fund during the previous fiscal year 
that were attributable to care and services furnished through each such 
medical center.
    ``(B) Amounts credited under subparagraph (A) may not be offset by 
reductions in amounts otherwise available to the centers referred to in 
that subparagraph or in the total amount of funds to be made available 
to the Department for health care and medical services.''.

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