H.R. 617, No Coronavirus Copays for Veterans Act
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House bill 617, the No Coronavirus Copays for Veterans Act, was introduced January 28, 2021 by Ms. UNDERWOOD, with cosponsors named in the heading, and referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. It is a bill to prohibit the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from charging veterans copayments for preventive services relating to COVID–19. Section 2 provides that the Secretary may not require any copayment or other cost sharing under chapter 17 of title 38, United States Code, for qualifying coronavirus preventive services, and takes the definitions of qualifying coronavirus preventive service and specified date from section 3203 of the CARES Act (Public Law 116–136).
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“H.R. 617, No Coronavirus Copays for Veterans Act.”
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117TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 617
To prohibit the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from charging veterans
copayments for preventive services relating to COVID–19.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY 28, 2021
Ms. UNDERWOOD (for herself, Ms. BROWNLEY, Mr. ZELDIN, and Mr.
FITZPATRICK) introduced the following bill; which was 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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