<section xmlns="http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" style="-uslm-lc:I80" id="id5494c9d1-f67d-11e5-8cc7-9b652666228a" identifier="/us/usc/t38/s1732"><num value="1732">§ 1732.</num><heading> Contracts and grants to provide for the care and treatment of United States veterans by the Veterans Memorial Medical Center</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I11" class="indent0" id="id5494c9d2-f67d-11e5-8cc7-9b652666228a" identifier="/us/usc/t38/s1732/a"><num value="a">(a)</num><chapeau> The President, with the concurrence of the Republic of the Philippines, may authorize the Secretary to enter into contracts with the Veterans Memorial Medical Center, with the approval of the appropriate department of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines, covering the period beginning on <date date="1981-10-01">October 1, 1981</date>, and ending on <date date="1994-09-30">September 30, 1994</date>, under which the United States—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I12" class="indent1" id="id5494c9d3-f67d-11e5-8cc7-9b652666228a" identifier="/us/usc/t38/s1732/a/1"><num value="1">(1)</num><content> will provide for payments for hospital care and medical services (including nursing home care) in the Veterans Memorial Medical Center, as authorized by <ref href="/us/usc/t38/s1724">section 1724 of this title</ref> and on the terms and conditions set forth in such section, to eligible United States veterans at a per diem rate to be jointly determined for each fiscal year by the two Governments to be fair and reasonable; and</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I12" class="indent1" id="id5494c9d4-f67d-11e5-8cc7-9b652666228a" identifier="/us/usc/t38/s1732/a/2"><num value="2">(2)</num><content> may provide that payments for such hospital care and medical services provided to eligible United States veterans may consist in whole or in part of available medicines, medical supplies, and equipment furnished by the Secretary to the Veterans Memorial Medical Center at valuations therefor as determined by the Secretary, who may furnish such medicines, medical supplies, and equipment through the revolving supply fund pursuant to <ref href="/us/usc/t38/s8121">section 8121 of this title</ref>.</content>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I11" class="indent0" id="id5494c9d5-f67d-11e5-8cc7-9b652666228a" identifier="/us/usc/t38/s1732/b"><num value="b">(b)</num><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I11" class="indent0" id="id5494c9d6-f67d-11e5-8cc7-9b652666228a" identifier="/us/usc/t38/s1732/b/1"><num value="1">(1)</num><content> To further assure the effective care and treatment of United States veterans in the Veterans Memorial Medical Center, there is authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year during the period beginning on <date date="1981-10-01">October 1, 1981</date>, and ending on <date date="1990-09-30">September 30, 1990</date>, the sum of $1,000,000 to be used by the Secretary for making grants to the Veterans Memorial Medical Center for the purpose of assisting the Republic of the Philippines in the replacement and upgrading of equipment and in rehabilitating the physical plant and facilities of such center.</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I11" class="indent0" id="id5494c9d7-f67d-11e5-8cc7-9b652666228a" identifier="/us/usc/t38/s1732/b/2"><num value="2">(2)</num><content> Grants under this subsection shall be made on such terms and conditions as prescribed by the Secretary. Such terms and conditions may include a requirement of prior approval by the Secretary of the uses of the funds provided by such grants.</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I11" class="indent0" id="id5494c9d8-f67d-11e5-8cc7-9b652666228a" identifier="/us/usc/t38/s1732/b/3"><num value="3">(3)</num><content> Funds for such grants may be provided only from appropriations made to the Department for the specific purpose of making such grants.</content>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I11" class="indent0" id="id5494c9d9-f67d-11e5-8cc7-9b652666228a" identifier="/us/usc/t38/s1732/c"><num value="c">(c)</num><content> The Secretary may stop payments under a contract or grant under this section upon reasonable notice as stipulated by the contract or grant if the Republic of the Philippines and the Veterans Memorial Medical Center do not maintain the medical center in a well-equipped and effective operating condition as determined by the Secretary.</content>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I11" class="indent0" id="id5494c9da-f67d-11e5-8cc7-9b652666228a" identifier="/us/usc/t38/s1732/d"><num value="d">(d)</num><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I11" class="indent0" id="id5494c9db-f67d-11e5-8cc7-9b652666228a" identifier="/us/usc/t38/s1732/d/1"><num value="1">(1)</num><content> The authority of the Secretary to enter into contracts and to make grants under this section is effective for any fiscal year only to the extent that appropriations are available for that purpose.</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I11" class="indent0" id="id5494c9dc-f67d-11e5-8cc7-9b652666228a" identifier="/us/usc/t38/s1732/d/2"><num value="2">(2)</num><content> Appropriations made for the purpose of this section shall remain available until expended.</content>
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<sourceCredit id="id5494c9dd-f67d-11e5-8cc7-9b652666228a">(Added <ref href="/us/pl/93/82/tI">Pub. L. 93–82, title I</ref>, § 107(a), <date date="1973-08-02">Aug. 2, 1973</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/87/184">87 Stat. 184</ref>, § 632; amended <ref href="/us/pl/94/581/tII">Pub. L. 94–581, title II</ref>, § 210(a)(14), <date date="1976-10-21">Oct. 21, 1976</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/90/2863">90 Stat. 2863</ref>; <ref href="/us/pl/95/520">Pub. L. 95–520</ref>, § 3(b), <date date="1978-10-26">Oct. 26, 1978</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/92/1820">92 Stat. 1820</ref>; <ref href="/us/pl/97/72/tI">Pub. L. 97–72, title I</ref>, § 107(c)(1), <date date="1981-11-03">Nov. 3, 1981</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/95/1052">95 Stat. 1052</ref>; <ref href="/us/pl/99/576/tII">Pub. L. 99–576, title II</ref>, § 206(a)(1), <date date="1986-10-28">Oct. 28, 1986</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/100/3256">100 Stat. 3256</ref>; <ref href="/us/pl/100/687/dB/tXV">Pub. L. 100–687, div. B, title XV</ref>, § 1502(a), (b), <date date="1988-11-18">Nov. 18, 1988</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/102/4132">102 Stat. 4132</ref>; <ref href="/us/pl/102/40/tIV">Pub. L. 102–40, title IV</ref>, § 402(d)(1), <date date="1991-05-07">May 7, 1991</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/105/239">105 Stat. 239</ref>; renumbered § 1732 and amended <ref href="/us/pl/102/83">Pub. L. 102–83</ref>, §§ 4(a)(3), (4), (b)(1), (2)(E), 5(a), (c)(1), <date date="1991-08-06">Aug. 6, 1991</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/105/404-406">105 Stat. 404–406</ref>; <ref href="/us/pl/102/86/tIII">Pub. L. 102–86, title III</ref>, § 304(a), <date date="1991-08-14">Aug. 14, 1991</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/105/416">105 Stat. 416</ref>; <ref href="/us/pl/102/585/tV">Pub. L. 102–585, title V</ref>, § 503, <date date="1992-11-04">Nov. 4, 1992</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/106/4955">106 Stat. 4955</ref>.)</sourceCredit>
<notes type="uscNote" id="id5494c9de-f67d-11e5-8cc7-9b652666228a">
<note style="-uslm-lc:I74" topic="priorProvisions" id="id5494c9df-f67d-11e5-8cc7-9b652666228a"><heading class="centered smallCaps">Prior Provisions</heading><p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Prior section 1732 was renumbered <ref href="/us/usc/t38/s3532">section 3532 of this title</ref>.</p>
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<note style="-uslm-lc:I74" topic="amendments" id="id5494c9e0-f67d-11e5-8cc7-9b652666228a"><heading class="centered smallCaps">Amendments</heading><p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">1992—Subsec. (a). <ref href="/us/pl/102/585">Pub. L. 102–585</ref> substituted “<date date="1994-09-30">September 30, 1994</date>” for “<date date="1992-09-30">September 30, 1992</date>”.</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">1991—<ref href="/us/pl/102/83">Pub. L. 102–83</ref>, § 5(a), renumbered <ref href="/us/usc/t38/s632">section 632 of this title</ref> as this section.</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Subsec. (a). <ref href="/us/pl/102/86">Pub. L. 102–86</ref> amended subsec. (a) of this section as in effect before the redesignations made by <ref href="/us/pl/102/83">Pub. L. 102–83</ref>, § 5, by substituting “1992” for “1990”.</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0"><ref href="/us/pl/102/83">Pub. L. 102–83</ref>, § 4(b)(1), (2)(E), substituted “Secretary” for “Administrator” wherever appearing.</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Subsec. (a)(1). <ref href="/us/pl/102/83">Pub. L. 102–83</ref>, § 5(c)(1), substituted “1724” for “624”.</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Subsec. (a)(2). <ref href="/us/pl/102/40">Pub. L. 102–40</ref>, § 402(d)(1), substituted “8121” for “5021”.</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Subsec. (b)(1), (2). <ref href="/us/pl/102/83">Pub. L. 102–83</ref>, § 4(b)(1), (2)(E), substituted “Secretary” for “Administrator” wherever appearing.</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Subsec. (b)(3). <ref href="/us/pl/102/83">Pub. L. 102–83</ref>, § 4(a)(3), (4), substituted “Department” for “Veterans’ Administration”.</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Subsecs. (c), (d)(1). <ref href="/us/pl/102/83">Pub. L. 102–83</ref>, § 4(b)(1), (2)(E), substituted “Secretary” for “Administrator” wherever appearing.</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">1988—Subsecs. (a), (b)(1). <ref href="/us/pl/100/687">Pub. L. 100–687</ref> substituted “1990” for “1989” in subsec. (a) and substituted “1990” for “1989” and “$1,000,000” for “$500,000” in subsec. (b)(1).</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">1986—Subsecs. (a), (b)(1). <ref href="/us/pl/99/576">Pub. L. 99–576</ref> substituted “<date date="1989-09-30">September 30, 1989</date>” for “<date date="1986-09-30">September 30, 1986</date>”.</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">1981—<ref href="/us/pl/97/72">Pub. L. 97–72</ref> amended section generally, first by substituting <date date="1986-09-30">Sept. 30, 1986</date>, for <date date="1981-09-30">Sept. 30, 1981</date>, as the ending date for the period during which the President, with the concurrence of the Republic of the Philippines, may authorize the Administrator to enter into contracts with the Veterans Memorial Medical Center to provide for payments for hospital care and medical services, and by including nursing home care, for eligible United States veterans as authorized by and on the same conditions as set forth in section 624, with such care to consist in whole or in part of available medicines, medical supplies, and equipment furnished through the revolving supply fund, pursuant to section 5021, at valuations determined by the Administrator using available appropriations for payments and with the per diem rate for such care and services to be jointly determined annually by the two Governments as fair and reasonable, second by increasing from $50,000 to $500,000 per year the size of grants to replace and upgrade equipment and rehabilitate the Center’s physical plant, third by continuing the Administrator’s authority to stop payments in certain cases, and fourth by limiting the Administrator’s authority to contract for hospital care and to make grants for any fiscal year, to the extent that appropriations are available for that purpose.</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">1978—Subsec. (a). <ref href="/us/pl/95/520">Pub. L. 95–520</ref>, § 3(b)(1), (2), substituted “Veterans Memorial Medical Center” for “Veterans Memorial Hospital” in introductory text and pars. (1), (2), (5), and (7), and in introductory text, substituted “enter into contracts” for “enter into a contract” and “<date date="1981-09-30">September 30, 1981</date>” for “<date date="1978-06-30">June 30, 1978</date>”.</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Subsec. (b). <ref href="/us/pl/95/520">Pub. L. 95–520</ref>, § 3(b)(3), substituted “<date date="1981-10-01">October 1, 1981</date>” for “<date date="1978-07-01">July 1, 1978</date>”.</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Subsec. (c). <ref href="/us/pl/95/520">Pub. L. 95–520</ref>, § 3(b)(1), substituted “Veterans Memorial Medical Center” for “Veterans Memorial Hospital”.</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Subsec. (d). <ref href="/us/pl/95/520">Pub. L. 95–520</ref>, § 3(b)(1), (4), substituted “Veterans Memorial Medical Center” for “Veterans Memorial Hospital” in three places and “occurring during the period beginning <date date="1973-07-01">July 1, 1973</date>, and ending <date date="1981-09-30">September 30, 1981</date>” for “during the five years beginning <date date="1973-07-01">July 1, 1973</date>, and ending <date date="1978-06-30">June 30, 1978</date>”.</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">1976—Subsec. (d). <ref href="/us/pl/94/581">Pub. L. 94–581</ref> substituted “approval by the Administrator” for “approved by him”.</p>
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<note style="-uslm-lc:I74" topic="effectiveDateOfAmendment" id="id5494c9e1-f67d-11e5-8cc7-9b652666228a"><heading class="centered smallCaps">Effective Date of 1976 Amendment</heading><p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Amendment by <ref href="/us/pl/94/581">Pub. L. 94–581</ref> effective <date date="1976-10-21">Oct. 21, 1976</date>, see <ref href="/us/pl/94/581/s211">section 211 of Pub. L. 94–581</ref>, set out as a note under <ref href="/us/usc/t38/s111">section 111 of this title</ref>.</p>
</note>
<note style="-uslm-lc:I74" topic="effectiveDate" id="id5494c9e2-f67d-11e5-8cc7-9b652666228a"><heading class="centered smallCaps">Effective Date</heading><p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Section effective <date date="1973-07-01">July 1, 1973</date>, see <ref href="/us/pl/93/82/s501">section 501 of Pub. L. 93–82</ref>, set out as an Effective Date of 1973 Amendment note under <ref href="/us/usc/t38/s1701">section 1701 of this title</ref>.</p>
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<note style="-uslm-lc:I74" topic="savings" id="id5494c9e3-f67d-11e5-8cc7-9b652666228a"><heading class="centered smallCaps">Savings Provision</heading><p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0"><ref href="/us/pl/93/82/tI">Pub. L. 93–82, title I</ref>, § 107(c), <date date="1973-08-02">Aug. 2, 1973</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/87/186">87 Stat. 186</ref>, provided that <ref href="/us/pl/93/82/s107/a">section 107(a) of Pub. L. 93–82</ref>, enacting this section and section 631 [now 1731] of this title, did not affect any right, cause, obligation, contract (including the contract executed <date date="1967-04-25">Apr. 25, 1967</date>, between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Government of the United States resulting from <ref href="/us/pl/89/612">Pub. L. 89–612</ref>, which was to remain in effect until modified or superseded by an agreement executed under authority of <ref href="/us/pl/93/82">Pub. L. 93–82</ref>), authorization of appropriation, grant, function, power, or duty vested by law or otherwise under this section in effect on the day before <date date="1973-08-02">Aug. 2, 1973</date>.</p>
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<note style="-uslm-lc:I74" topic="miscellaneous" id="id5494c9e4-f67d-11e5-8cc7-9b652666228a"><heading class="centered smallCaps">Ratification of Actions of Secretary of Veterans Affairs in Carrying Out This Section</heading><p><ref href="/us/pl/102/86/tIII">Pub. L. 102–86, title III</ref>, § 304(b), <date date="1991-08-14">Aug. 14, 1991</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/105/416">105 Stat. 416</ref>, provided that: <quotedContent origin="/us/pl/102/86/tIII">“Any actions by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in carrying out the provisions of section 632 [now 1732] of title 38, United States Code, by contract or otherwise, during the period beginning on <date date="1990-10-01">October 1, 1990</date>, and ending on the date of the enactment of this Act [<date date="1991-08-14">Aug. 14, 1991</date>] are hereby ratified.”</quotedContent>
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</note>
<note style="-uslm-lc:I74" topic="miscellaneous" id="id5494c9e5-f67d-11e5-8cc7-9b652666228a"><heading class="centered smallCaps">Ratification of Action of Administrator in Contracting</heading><p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0"><ref href="/us/pl/99/576/tII">Pub. L. 99–576, title II</ref>, § 206(a)(2), <date date="1986-10-28">Oct. 28, 1986</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/100/3256">100 Stat. 3256</ref>, ratified actions by the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs in contracting under subsec. (a) of this section with respect to the period beginning <date date="1986-10-01">Oct. 1, 1986</date>, and ending <date date="1986-10-28">Oct. 28, 1986</date>.</p>
</note>
<note style="-uslm-lc:I74" topic="miscellaneous" id="id5494c9e6-f67d-11e5-8cc7-9b652666228a"><heading class="centered smallCaps">Reports on Use of Funds</heading><p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0"><ref href="/us/pl/99/576/tII">Pub. L. 99–576, title II</ref>, § 206(b), <date date="1986-10-28">Oct. 28, 1986</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/100/3256">100 Stat. 3256</ref>, directed Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs, not later than <date date="1987-02-01">Feb. 1, 1987</date>, 1988, and 1989, to submit to Congress a report describing use of funds provided to Republic of the Philippines under subsec. (b) of this section during the preceding fiscal year.</p>
</note>
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