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PUBLIC LAW 93-82-AUG. 2, 1973

[87 STAT.

necessary travel expenses to and from his home to snch hospital or tr-aining institution. ''(b) The Administrator may provide seeing-eye or guide dogs trained for the aid of the blind to veterans who are entitled to disability compensation, and he may pay all necessary travel expenses to and from their homes and incurred in becoming adjusted to such seeing-eye or guide dogs. The Administrator may also provide such veterans with mechanical or electronic equipment for aiding them in overcoming the handicap of blindness.". (c) The table of sections at the beginning of (*]iaptei- 17 of such title is amended by striking out "613. Fitting and training in nse of prostlietic appliances. "614. Seeing-eye dogs."

and inserting '•613. Medical care for survivorvS and dependents of certain veterans. "614. Fitting and training in use of prosthetic appliances; seeing-eye dogs.'".

Nursing home care 78*Stat. 500; 83 Stat. 167.

^j^,^._ J^Q^^ (^,^^ yj^^ ^^.g^ seutence of subsection (a) of section 020 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by redesignating clauses (1) .,j^(j ^2) as clauscs (i) and (ii), respectively; and by amending that portion preceding such clauses to read as follows: " (a) Subject to subsection (b) of this section, the Administrator may transfer— "(1) any veteran Avho has been furnished care by the Administrator in a hospital undei- the direct and exclusive jurisdiction of the Administrator, and "(2) any person (A) who has been furnished care in any hospital of any of the Armed Forces, (B) who the appropriate Secretary concerned has determined has received maximum hospital benefits but requires a protracted period of nursing home care, and (C) who upon discharge therefrom will become a veteran to any public or private institution not under the jurisdiction of the Administrator which furnishes nursing home care, for care at the expense of the United States, only if the Administrator determines that—". (b) The second sentence of section 620(a) of such title is amended by striking out the designations (A) and (B) and inserting in lieu thereof (I) and ( II). (c) Section 620(b) of such title is amended (1) by adding "or admitted" after "transferred" and (2) by adding at the end thereof the following: "The standards prescribed and any report of inspection of institutions furnishing care to veterans under this section made by or for the Administrator shall, to the extent possible, be made available to all Federal, State, and local agencies charged with the responsibility of licensing or otherwise regulating or inspecting such institutions.". (d) Section 620 of such title is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection (d): " (d) Subject to subsection (b) of this section, the Administrator may authorize for any veteran requiring nursing home care for a service-connected disability direct admission for such care at the expense

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