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[119 STAT. 2391]
PUBLIC LAW 109-000—MMMM. DD, 2005
[119 STAT. 2391]

PUBLIC LAW 109–114—NOV. 30, 2005

119 STAT. 2391

medical facilities supported by the Indian Health Service or tribal organizations. The Secretary shall: (1) limit the application of this provision to rural Alaskan veterans in areas where an existing Department of Veterans Affairs facility or Veterans Affairs-contracted service is unavailable; (2) require participating veterans and facilities to comply with all appropriate rules and regulations, as established by the Secretary; (3) require this provision to be consistent with Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Services activities; and (4) result in no additional cost to the Department of Veterans Affairs or the Indian Health Service. (INCLUDING

TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

SEC. 219. That such sums as may be deposited to the Department of Veterans Affairs Capital Asset Fund pursuant to section 8118 of title 38, United States Code, may be transferred to the ‘‘Construction, major projects’’ and ‘‘Construction, minor projects’’ accounts, to remain available until expended for the purposes of these accounts. SEC. 220. None of the funds available to the Department of Veterans Affairs, in this Act or any other Act, may be used to replace the current system by which the Veterans Integrated Service Networks select and contract for diabetes monitoring supplies and equipment. SEC. 221. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to implement any policy prohibiting the Directors of the Veterans Integrated Service Networks from conducting outreach or marketing to enroll new veterans within their respective Networks. SEC. 222. The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress a quarterly report on the financial status of the Veterans Health Administration. SEC. 223. None of the funds made available in this Act or any other Act may be used— (1) with respect to the 2,100 compensation cases identified in the Scope and Methodology description in VA Inspector General Report No. 05–00765–137 as having been reviewed by the Office of Inspector General— (A) to retroactively revoke or reduce a veteran’s disability compensation payments for post traumatic stress disorder based on a finding that the Department of Veterans Affairs failed to collect justifying documentation unless the award of compensation was the direct result of fraud by the applicant; or (B) to prospectively revoke or reduce a veteran’s disability compensation payments for post traumatic stress disorder, based on a finding that the Department of Veterans Affairs failed to collect justifying documentation, effective before the date on which the veteran’s time to exhaust all available administrative and judicial appeals has expired or such administrative and judicial appeals are finally decided; or (2) for the implementation of Recommendation 3 of VA Inspector General Report No. 05–00765–137 or any related review and investigation of post traumatic stress, individual unemployability, and schedular 100 percent ratings cases, until the Department of Veterans Affairs reports to the Committees

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