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 PUBLIC LAW 98-160—NOV. 21, 1983 97 STAT. 993 Public Law 98-160 98th Congress An Act To amend title 38, United States Code, to extend and improve various health-care and other programs of the Veterans' Administration; and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SHORT TITLE; AMENDMENTS TO TITLE 38, UNITED STATES CODE SECTION 1. (a) This Act may be cited as the "Veterans' Health Care Amendments of 1983". (b) Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in this Act an amendment is expressed in terms of an amendment to a section or other provision, the reference shall be considered to be made to a section or other provision of title 38, United States Code. TITLE I-VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION HEALTH-CARE PROGRAMS Nov. 21, 1983 [H.R. 2920] Veterans' Health Care Amendments of 1983. 38 USC 101 note. Report to congressional committees. VIETNAM-ERA VETERANS READJUSTMENT COUNSEUNG PROGRAM SEC. 101. (a) Subsection (a) of section 612A is amended by inserting 38 USC 612A. a period after "life" and striking out all that follows in the first sentence. (b)(1) Paragraph (1) of subsection (g) of such section is amended by striking out "September 30, 1984," and "October 1, 1984," and in- serting in lieu thereof "September 30, 1988," and "October 1, 1988,", respectively. (2) Paragraph (2) of such subsection is amended to read as follows: "(2)(A) Not later than April 1, 1987, the Administrator shall submit to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and House of Representatives a report on the Administrator's evaluation of the effectiveness in helping to meet the readjustment needs of veterans who served on active duty during the Vietnam era of the readjustment counseling and mental health services provided pursu- ant to this section (and of outreach efforts with respect to such counseling and services). Such report shall give particular attention, in light of the results of the study required by section 102 of the Veterans' Health Care Amendments of 1983, to the provision of such Post, p. 994. counseling and services to veterans with post-traumatic stress disor- der and to the diagnosis and treatment of such disorder. "(B) The report required by subparagraph (A) of this paragraph shall include— "(i) the opinion of the Administrator with respect to (I) the extent to which the readjustment needs of veterans who served on active duty during the Vietnam era remain unmet, and (II) the extent to which the provision of readjustment counseling services under this section in a program providing such services through facilities situated apart from Veterans' Administration health-care facilities is needed to meet such needs; and 11-194O-85~ 33 QL3

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