S. 3724, No Coronavirus Copays for Veterans Act
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S. 3724, the No Coronavirus Copays for Veterans Act, was introduced in the Senate on May 13, 2020 by Ms. Duckworth (for herself, Ms. Collins, and Mr. Tester). Its stated purpose is to prohibit the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from charging veterans copayments for preventive services relating to COVID-19. Section 2 provides that the Secretary of Veterans Affairs may not require any copayment or other cost sharing under chapter 17 of title 38, United States Code, for qualifying coronavirus preventive services. It takes the terms qualifying coronavirus preventive service and specified date from section 3203 of the CARES Act (Public Law 116-136).
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“S. 3724, No Coronavirus Copays for Veterans Act.”
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116TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
S. 3724
To prohibit the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from charging veterans
copayments for preventive services relating to COVID–19.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
MAY 13, 2020
Ms. DUCKWORTH (for herself, Ms. COLLINS, and Mr. TESTER) introduced the
following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on
Veterans’ Affairs
A BILL
To prohibit the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from charging
veterans copayments for preventive services relating to
COVID–19.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘No Coronavirus
5 Copays for Veterans Act’’.
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1 SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON COPAYMENTS AND COST SHARING
2 FOR VETERANS RECEIVING PREVENTIVE
3 SERVICES RELATING TO COVID–19.
4 (a) PROHIBITION.—The Secretary of Veterans Af-
5 fairs may not require any copayment or other cost sharing
6 under chapter 17 of title 38, United States Code, for
7 qualifying coronavirus preventive services. The require-
8 ment described in this subsection shall take effect with
9 respect to a qualifying coronavirus preventive service on
10 the specified date.
11 (b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the terms ‘‘quali-
12 fying coronavirus preventive service’’ and ‘‘specified date’’
13 have the meaning given those terms in section 3203 of
14 the CARES Act (Public Law 116–136).
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