Volume 83 · 837
Public Law 91–178
To amend title 38, United States Code, to promote the care and treatment of veterans in State veterans’ homes.
Approved December 30, 1969
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend title 38, United States Code, to promote the care and treatment of veterans in State veterans’ homes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
that section 641 of title 38, united states code, is amended to read as follows:
“the administrator shall pay each state at the per diem rate of—
“(1) $3.50 for domiciliary care,
“(2) $5 for nursing home care, and
“(3) $7.50 for hospital care,
for each veteran of any war receiving such care in a state home, if, in the case of such a veteran receiving domiciliary or hospital care, such veteran is eligible for such care in a veterans’ administration facility, or if, in the case of such a veteran receiving nursing home care, such veteran meets the requirements of paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of section
72 stat. 1141, 1142; 76 stat. 381; 80 stat. 27.
610(a) of this title, except that the requirements of clause (b) of such paragraph (1) shall for this purpose refer to the inability to defray the expenses of necessary nursing home care; however, in no case shall the payments made with respect to any veteran under this section exceed one-half of the cost of the veteran’s care in such state home.”
Sec. 2.
Subchapter V of chapter 17 of title 38, United States
Supra; 72 Stat. 1146.
Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section:
Ҥ 644. Authorization of appropriations
“(a) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970, and a like sum for each of the nine succeeding fiscal years. Subject to the conditions set forth in subsection (b) of this section, sums appropriated pursuant to this section shall be used for making grants to States which have submitted, and have had approved by the Administrator, applications for assistance in remodeling, modification, or alteration of existing hospital or domiciliary facilities in State homes providing care and treatment for veterans.
“(b) The amount which may be granted to a State home for purposes of subsection (a) shall not exceed 50 per centum of the estimated cost of the project, nor may any one State receive in any fiscal year more than 20 per centum of the amount appropriated for that fiscal year.
“(c) Grants under this section shall be made on such terms and conditions prescribed in regulations by the Administrator.
“(d) Sums appropriated pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall remain available until the end of the second fiscal year following the fiscal year for which they are appropriated.”
The analysis of chapter 17 of title 38, United States Code, is
amended by inserting immediately below
the following:
Approved December 30, 1969.