Fairness for Rural Veterans Act of 2021
This bill includes construction or acquisition of a nursing home or domiciliary that is from a state with a significant need for beds and is located at least 100 miles away from the nearest existing state home facility as a priority for Department of Veterans Affairs state home facility grants.
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for priority in the 
award of State home facility grants to nursing homes and domiciliaries 
 from States that the Secretary determines have a great or significant 
 need for beds and which are located at least 100 miles away from the 
                 nearest existing State home facility.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Fairness for Rural Veterans Act of 
2021''.

SEC. 2. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS PRIORITY FOR STATE HOME FACILITY 
              GRANTS.

    Section 8135(c)(2) of title 38, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subparagraphs (D) through (H) as 
        subparagraphs (E) through (I), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after subparagraph (C) the following new 
        subparagraph (D):
            ``(D) An application for construction or acquisition of a 
        nursing home or domiciliary from a State that the Secretary 
        determines, in accordance with regulations under this 
        subchapter, has a great or significant need for beds and which 
        is located at least 100 miles away from the nearest existing 
        State home facility.''.
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Fairness for Rural Veterans Act of 2021
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for priority in the award of State home facility grants to nursing homes and domiciliaries from States that the Secretary determines have a great or significant need for beds and which are located at least 100 miles away from the nearest existing State home facility.
Fairness for Rural Veterans Act of 2021
Rep. O'Halleran, Tom