Veterans Health Programs Extension Act of 1994

House Bill 3313 - Veterans Health Programs Extension Act of 1994: Overview, Status, and Impact

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Explore the details of House Bill 3313 Veterans Health Programs Extension Act of 1994 currently in Congress. Get insights into its purpose, current status, sponsors, and potential impact on Armed Forces and National Security. Stay informed on legislative developments.

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Congressional Summary of HR 3313

Veterans Benefits and Services Amendments of 1994 - Entitles veterans who have repaid in full a previous home loan guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs to another home loan, whether or not the property securing the first loan has been sold or otherwise disposed of. (Current law requires such sale, even if the loan has been repaid in full.)

Allows veterans to refinance an existing guaranteed loan in order to make energy efficiency improvements.

Changes from August 5, 1964, to February 28, 1961, the date for the beginning of the Vietnam era for purposes of Federal veterans' benefits provisions for veterans who served in the Republic of Vietnam.

Excludes the payment to Alaska Natives of cash, stock, land, or other interests representing dividends paid under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act from the calculation of annual income in the determination of eligibility for veterans' pensions.

Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to enter into an agreement with the Caring Place at Loyola, Inc., an Illinois nonprofit organization, for establishing on the grounds of the Edward Hines, Jr., Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Hines, Illinois, a facility for the provision of temporary accommodations for family members of severely ill children being treated at the Loyola of Chicago Medical Center.

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Current Status of Bill HR 3313

Bill HR 3313 is currently in the status of Bill Introduced since October 19, 1993. Bill HR 3313 was introduced during Congress 103 and was introduced to the House on October 19, 1993. Bill HR 3313's most recent activity was Became Public Law No: 103-452. as of November 2, 1994

Bipartisan Support of Bill HR 3313

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Policy Area and Potential Impact of Bill HR 3313

Primary Policy Focus

Armed Forces and National Security

Potential Impact Areas

- Agent Orange

- Alaska

- Ambulatory care

- Arizona

- Atomic bomb

- Authorization

- Building leases

- California

- Child health

- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues

- Community health services

- Congress

- Congressional reporting requirements

- Counseling

- Crime and Law Enforcement

- Demography

- Department of Veterans Affairs

- Dioxins

- Disabled

- Drug abuse

- Earthquakes

- East Asia

- Economics and Public Finance

- Emergency Management

- Energy

- Energy efficiency

- Energy policy

- Environmental Protection

- Executive reorganization

- Families

- Federal advisory bodies

- Federally-guaranteed loans

- Fees

- Finance and Financial Sector

- Florida

- Government Operations and Politics

- Halfway houses

- Health

- Health counseling

- Health education

- Health surveys

- Herbicides

- Home repair and improvement

- Homeless

- Hospital care

- Housing and Community Development

- Housing finance

- Illinois

- Income

- Income tax

- Indian claims

- Indian lands

- Information services

- Ionizing radiation

- Japan

- Korean War, 1950-1953

- Labor and Employment

- Leases

- Mammography

- Medical centers

- Medical research

- Medical supplies

- Mental health services

- Mentally ill

- Minorities

- Mortgage interest rates

- Mortgage loans

- Native Americans

- Nonprofit organizations

- Nuclear weapons

- Nursing homes

- Occupational therapy

- Patients' rights

- Persian Gulf War

- Philippines

- Quality of care

- Radiation victims

- Rape

- Rape victim services

- Residential energy conservation

- Right of privacy

- Science, Technology, Communications

- Sex crimes

- Sexual harassment of women

- Social Welfare

- South Carolina

- Tax-exempt organizations

- Taxation

- Teaching hospitals

- Telephone

- Trauma care

- Treatment and rehabilitation of alcoholics

- Treatment and rehabilitation of narcotic addicts

- Veterans' hospitals

- Veterans' loans

- Veterans' medical care

- Veterans' pensions

- Veterans' rehabilitation

- Vietnam veterans

- Vietnamese Conflict

- Women

- Women veterans

- Women's health

- World War II

Alternate Title(s) of Bill HR 3313

Women Veterans Health Improvements Act of 1993

Veterans Health Improvements Act of 1993

Veterans Benefits and Services Amendments of 1994

Veterans Health Programs Extension Act of 1994

An Act to amend title 38, United States Code, to permit home loan guaranties forenergy efficiency improvements, to extend the period of the Vietnam era, to exclude certain payments to Alaska natives from annual income determinations for pension purposes, and for other purposes.

To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve health care services of the Department of Veterans Affairs relating to women veterans, to extend and expand authority for the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide priority health care to veterans who were exposed to ionizing radiation or to Agent Orange, to expand the scope of services that may be provided to veterans through Vet Centers, and for other purposes.

Veterans Health Improvements Act of 1993