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119THCONGRESS
1
STSESSION H. R. 210
To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Veterans
Affairs to furnish dental care in the same manner as any other medical
service, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY6, 2025
Ms. B
ROWNLEY(for herself, Mr. CASTEN, Ms. MOOREof Wisconsin, Mr.
C
OHEN, Mr. KEATING, Mr. POCAN, Mr. CARBAJAL, Ms. BONAMICI, Ms.
K
ELLYof Illinois, Mr. QUIGLEY, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. JOHNSONof Geor-
gia, Mrs. D
INGELL, Ms. BARRAGA´N, Ms. TLAIB, Mr. LANDSMAN, Mr.
A
MO, Ms. NORTON, Mrs. RAMIREZ, and Ms. TOKUDA) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs
A BILL
To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Sec-
retary of Veterans Affairs to furnish dental care in the
same manner as any other medical service, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Dental Care for Vet-4
erans Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT THAT SECRETARY OF VETERANS AF-1
FAIRS FURNISH DENTAL CARE IN THE SAME 2
MANNER AS ANY OTHER MEDICAL SERVICE. 3
(a) D
ENTALBENEFITS.— 4
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Title 38, United States 5
Code, is amended— 6
(A) in section 1701(6), by striking ‘‘as de-7
scribed in sections 1710 and 1712 of this title’’; 8
(B) in section 1710(c), by striking the sec-9
ond sentence; 10
(C) in section 1712— 11
(i) by striking subsections (a) and (b); 12
(ii) by redesignating subsections (c), 13
(d), (e), and (f) as subsections (a), (b), (c), 14
and (d), respectively; and 15
(iii) in subsection (a), as redesignated 16
by subparagraph (B)— 17
(I) by striking ‘‘Dental appli-18
ances’’ and inserting ‘‘The Secretary 19
may furnish dentures, dental appli-20
ances’’; and 21
(II) by striking ‘‘to be furnished 22
by the Secretary under this section 23
may be procured by the Secretary’’ 24
and inserting ‘‘under this section and 25
may procure such appliances’’; and 26
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(D) by striking section 2062. 1
(2) P
HASED ELIGIBILITY.—The amendments 2
made by paragraph (1) shall apply as follows: 3
(A) In the case of an individual who is eli-4
gible for dental services and appliances fur-5
nished by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs 6
under chapter 17 of title 38, United States 7
Code, on the date of the enactment of this Act, 8
beginning on the date of the enactment of this 9
Act. 10
(B) In the case of a veteran who is not so 11
eligible on the date of the enactment of this Act 12
and who is described in paragraph (1) or (2) of 13
subsection (a) of section 1705 of such title, be-14
ginning on the date that is one year after the 15
date of the enactment of this Act. 16
(C) In the case of a veteran who is not so 17
eligible on the date of the enactment of this Act 18
and who is described in paragraph (3) or (4) of 19
subsection (a) of section 1705 of such title, be-20
ginning on the date that is two years after the 21
date of the enactment of this Act. 22
(D) In the case of a veteran who is not so 23
eligible on the date of the enactment of this Act 24
and who is described in paragraph (5) or (6) of 25
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subsection (a) of section 1705 of such title, be-1
ginning on the date that is three years after the 2
date of the enactment of this Act. 3
(E) In the case of a veteran who is not so 4
eligible on the date of the enactment of this Act 5
and who is described in paragraph (7) or (8) of 6
subsection (a) of section 1705 of such title, be-7
ginning on the date that is four years after the 8
date of the enactment of this Act. 9
(b) C
ONFORMINGAMENDMENTS.—Section 1525(a) 10
of title 38, United States Code, is amended by striking 11
‘‘medicines under section 1712(d)’’ and inserting ‘‘medi-12
cines under section 1712(b)’’. 13
(c) C
LERICALAMENDMENTS.—Such title is further 14
amended— 15
(1) in section 1712, in the heading for such sec-16
tion, by striking ‘‘Dental care’’ and inserting 17
‘‘Appliances’’; 18
(2) in the table of sections at the beginning of 19
chapter 17, by striking the item relating to section 20
1712 and inserting the following new item: 21
‘‘1712. Appliances; drugs and medicines for certain disabled veterans; vac-
cines.’’; and
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(3) in the table of sections at the beginning of 1
chapter 20, by striking the item relating to section 2
2062. 3
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