Public Law 107-135 · H.R. 3447 · Became law

Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Programs Enhancement Act of 2001

Official title: “To amend title 38, United States Code, to enhance the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to recruit and retain qualified nurses for the Veterans Health Administration, to provide an additional basis for establishing the inability of veterans to defray expenses of necessary medical care, to enhance certain health care programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.”

House: voice vote · Senate: without objection
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The Senate passed it without objection on December 20, 2001. No individual votes are recorded.

It became law on January 23, 2002.

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