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| 2 | 2 | | 118THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 234 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide a burial allowance for |
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| 6 | 6 | | certain veterans who die at home while in receipt of hospice care fur- |
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| 7 | 7 | | nished by the Department of Veterans Affairs. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 9 | 9 | | JANUARY10, 2023 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. B |
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| 11 | 11 | | ERGMAN(for himself, Mr. ALLRED, Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS, Mr. ELLZEY, |
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| 12 | 12 | | Ms. H |
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| 13 | 13 | | OULAHAN, Mr. BAIRD, Mr. BACON, and Mr. MAST) introduced the |
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| 14 | 14 | | following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs |
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| 15 | 15 | | A BILL |
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| 16 | 16 | | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide a burial |
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| 17 | 17 | | allowance for certain veterans who die at home while |
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| 18 | 18 | | in receipt of hospice care furnished by the Department |
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| 19 | 19 | | of Veterans Affairs. |
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| 20 | 20 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 21 | 21 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 23 | 23 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Gerald’s Law Act’’. 4 |
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| 26 | 26 | | •HR 234 IH |
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| 27 | 27 | | SEC. 2. BURIAL ALLOWANCE FOR CERTAIN VETERANS WHO 1 |
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| 28 | 28 | | DIE AT HOME WHILE IN RECEIPT OF HOS-2 |
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| 29 | 29 | | PICE CARE FURNISHED BY DEPARTMENT OF 3 |
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| 30 | 30 | | VETERANS AFFAIRS. 4 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (a) I |
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| 32 | 32 | | NGENERAL.—Subsection (a)(2)(A) of section 5 |
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| 33 | 33 | | 2303 of title 38, United States Code, as amended by sec-6 |
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| 34 | 34 | | tion 2202 of the Johnny Isakson and David P. Roe, M.D. 7 |
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| 35 | 35 | | Veterans Health Care and Benefits Improvement Act of 8 |
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| 36 | 36 | | 2020 (Public Law 116–315; 134 Stat. 4984), is further 9 |
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| 37 | 37 | | amended— 10 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (1) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘; or’’ and insert-11 |
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| 39 | 39 | | ing a semicolon; 12 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (2) in clause (ii)— 13 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (A) in subclause (II), by striking ‘‘; or’’ 14 |
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| 42 | 42 | | and inserting a semicolon; and 15 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (B) in subclause (III), by striking the pe-16 |
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| 44 | 44 | | riod at the end and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 17 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (3) by adding at the end the following new 18 |
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| 46 | 46 | | clause: 19 |
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| 47 | 47 | | ‘‘(iii) a home or other setting at which the 20 |
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| 48 | 48 | | deceased veteran was, at the time of death, re-21 |
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| 49 | 49 | | ceiving hospice care pursuant to section 22 |
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| 50 | 50 | | 1717(a) of this title if such care was directly 23 |
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| 51 | 51 | | preceded by the Secretary furnishing to the vet-24 |
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| 52 | 52 | | eran hospital care or nursing home care as de-25 |
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| 56 | 56 | | scribed in subclauses (I), (II), or (III) of clause 1 |
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| 57 | 57 | | (ii).’’. 2 |
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| 58 | 58 | | (b) E |
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| 59 | 59 | | FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 3 |
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| 60 | 60 | | subsection (a) shall take effect as if included in the enact-4 |
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| 61 | 61 | | ment of the Johnny Isakson and David P. Roe, M.D. Vet-5 |
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| 62 | 62 | | erans Health Care and Benefits Improvement Act of 2020 6 |
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| 63 | 63 | | (Public Law 116–315). 7 |
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| 64 | 64 | | Æ |
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