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Version 00 · Introduced in House · Oct 8, 2003
Veterans' Extended Health Care Services and Business Enhancements Act of 2003 - Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to: (1) extend through 2008 the period for the provision of veterans' noninstitutional extended-care services and required nursing home care; (2) remove a provision requiring a person to have been detained or interned for at least 90 days in order to qualify for outpatient dental care as a former prisoner of war; (3) allow any Under Secretary within the Department of Veterans Affairs (currently only the Under Secretary for Health) to provide business plans for the use within the Department of enhanced-use leases; (4) remove other statutory requirements with respect to the enhanced-use lease program; (5) allow the Secretary of Defense to make purchases through the Department's revolving supply fund; (6) provide for coverage under the tort claims laws for employees of Department nonprofit research corporations; (7) extend through 2008 the authority to establish such corporations; (8) revise due dates of certain required reports; and (9) designate the Department medical center in Prescott, Arizona, as the Bob Stump Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
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Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4] · R–NJ
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-See Public Law 108-170.
-Certain provisions incorporated. See S. 1156, Title I, Sections 101, 105, and 106; Title II, 202 and 241; Title IV, Sections 402, 403 and 405.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2019-2020)
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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