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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 784
To expand and modify the grant program of the Department of Veterans
Affairs to provide innovative transportation options to veterans in highly
rural areas, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
FEBRUARY27, 2025
Mr. O
SSOFF(for himself and Ms. COLLINS) introduced the following bill;
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs
A BILL
To expand and modify the grant program of the Department
of Veterans Affairs to provide innovative transportation
options to veterans in highly rural areas, 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 ‘‘Rural Veterans Trans-4
portation to Care Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. EXPANSION AND MODIFICATION OF TRANSPOR-1
TATION GRANT PROGRAM OF DEPARTMENT 2
OF VETERANS AFFAIRS. 3
Section 307 of the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus 4
Health Services Act of 2010 (Public Law 111–163; 38 5
U.S.C. 1710 note) is amended— 6
(1) in the section heading, by inserting 7
‘‘
RURAL OR’’ before ‘‘HIGHLY’’; 8
(2) in subsection (a)— 9
(A) by inserting ‘‘rural or’’ before ‘‘highly’’ 10
each place it appears; 11
(B) in paragraph (2)— 12
(i) by redesignating subparagraph (B) 13
as subparagraph (C); 14
(ii) by inserting after subparagraph 15
(A) the following new subparagraph (B): 16
‘‘(B) County veterans service organiza-17
tions.’’; and 18
(iii) by adding at the end the fol-19
lowing new subparagraph: 20
‘‘(D) Tribal organizations.’’; 21
(C) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘A State 22
veterans service agency or veterans service or-23
ganization awarded’’ and inserting ‘‘A recipient 24
of’’; and 25
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(D) by striking paragraph (4) and insert-1
ing the following new paragraph (4): 2
‘‘(4) M
AXIMUM AMOUNT.— 3
‘‘(A) I
N GENERAL.—Except as provided in 4
subparagraph (B), the amount of a grant under 5
this section may not exceed $60,000. 6
‘‘(B) A
DDITIONAL AMOUNT TO PURCHASE 7
A VEHICLE.—The amount of a grant under this 8
section to a recipient may be increased to an 9
amount not to exceed $80,000 if the recipient 10
is required to purchase a vehicle to comply with 11
the requirements of the Americans with Disabil-12
ities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq.) in 13
carrying out this section.’’; 14
(3) in subsection (c), by striking paragraph (1) 15
and inserting the following: 16
‘‘(1) R
URAL; HIGHLY RURAL .—The terms 17
‘rural’ and ‘highly rural’ have the meanings given 18
those terms under the Rural-Urban Commuting 19
Areas (RUCA) coding system of the Department of 20
Agriculture.’’; and 21
(4) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘$3,000,000 22
for each of fiscal years 2010 through 2022’’ and in-23
serting ‘‘such sums as may be necessary’’. 24
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