S. 399, No Coronavirus Copays for Veterans Act
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S. 399, the No Coronavirus Copays for Veterans Act, is a Senate bill introduced February 23, 2021 by Duckworth, for herself and Collins, and referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. 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. The requirement takes effect for a service on the specified date. Subsection (b) gives the terms qualifying coronavirus preventive service and specified date the meaning in section 3203 of the CARES Act (Public Law 116–136).
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“S. 399, No Coronavirus Copays for Veterans Act.”
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117TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
S. 399
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
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Ms. DUCKWORTH (for herself and Ms. COLLINS) 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’’.
6 SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON COPAYMENTS AND COST SHARING
7 FOR VETERANS RECEIVING PREVENTIVE
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SERVICES RELATING TO COVID–19.
9 (a) PROHIBITION.—The Secretary of Veterans Af-
10 fairs may not require any copayment or other cost sharing
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1 under chapter 17 of title 38, United States Code, for
2 qualifying coronavirus preventive services. The require-
3 ment described in this subsection shall take effect with
4 respect to a qualifying coronavirus preventive service on
5 the specified date.
6 (b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the terms ‘‘quali-
7 fying coronavirus preventive service’’ and ‘‘specified date’’
8 have the meaning given those terms in section 3203 of
9 the CARES Act (Public Law 116–136; 42 U.S.C. 300gg–
10 13 note).
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