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To amend the VA MISSION Act of 2018 to expand the Veterans Healing Veterans Medical Access and Scholarship Program to include more students and schools.

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What This Bill Does

This bill amends the VA MISSION Act of 2018 to expand the Veterans Healing Veterans Medical Access and Scholarship Program. The bill increases the number of eligible veterans who can participate in the program and adds more medical schools that can participate.

Who It Affects

Eligible veterans participating in the Veterans Healing Veterans Medical Access and Scholarship Program. Medical schools listed in the program, including five schools specifically named in this bill.

Key Provisions

• The program expands from supporting 18 eligible veterans to supporting 28 eligible veterans (Sec. 1) • Five medical schools are added to the list of covered medical schools: University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine, San Juan Bautista School of Medicine, Ponce Health Sciences University, and University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio (Sec. 1)

What Changes

The number of veterans who can participate in the scholarship program increases from 18 to 28. The bill also adds five medical schools to the program where these veterans can study.

Important Definitions

The bill reorganizes how the term "Covered Medical School" is defined but does not change the definition itself. The bill also references the definition of "State" from another part of federal law.

Effective Date

Not specified in bill text

I 118TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. R. 602 To amend the VA MISSION Act of 2018 to expand the Veterans Healing Veterans Medical Access and Scholarship Program to include more stu- dents and schools. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES JANUARY 27, 2023 Mrs. GONZA´LEZ-COLO´N introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs A BILL To amend the VA MISSION Act of 2018 to expand the Veterans Healing Veterans Medical Access and Scholar- ship Program to include more students and schools. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. VETERANS HEALING VETERANS MEDICAL AC- 3 CESS AND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM. 4 Section 304 of the VA MISSION Act of 2018 (Public 5 Law 115–182; 38 U.S.C. 7601 note) is amended— 6 (1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘18 eligible 7 veterans’’ and inserting ‘‘28 eligible veterans’’; and 8 (2) in subsection (g)— 9 VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:17 Mar 24, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H602.IH H602 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 2 •HR 602 IH (A) in the subsection heading, by striking 1 ‘‘COVERED MEDICAL SCHOOLS’’ and inserting 2 ‘‘DEFINITIONS’’; 3 (B) in paragraph (1), by redesignating 4 subparagraphs (A) through (E) as clauses (i) 5 through (v), respectively (and by moving such 6 clauses two ems to the right); 7 (C) by redesignating paragraphs (1) 8 through (5) as subparagraphs (A) through (E), 9 respectively (and by moving such subpara- 10 graphs two ems to the right); 11 (D) by striking ‘‘section, the term’’ and in- 12 serting the following: ‘‘section: 13 ‘‘(1) COVERED MEDICAL SCHOOL.—The term’’; 14 and 15 (E) by adding at the end the following: 16 ‘‘(F) University of Puerto Rico School of 17 Medicine. 18 ‘‘(G) Universidad Central del Caribe 19 School of Medicine. 20 ‘‘(H) San Juan Bautista School of Medi- 21 cine. 22 ‘‘(I) Ponce Health Sciences University. 23 ‘‘(J) University of Texas Health Sciences 24 Center at San Antonio. 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:17 Mar 24, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H602.IH H602 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 3 •HR 602 IH ‘‘(2) STATE.—The term ‘State’ has the mean- 1 ing given that term in section 101 of title 38, United 2 States Code.’’. 3 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:17 Mar 24, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\H602.IH H602 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB

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