AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

SEC. 105. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. There is authorized to be appropriated for the Department of Veterans Affairs for the Medical Care account, for the purposes specified for that account in Public Law 103–327 (108 Stat. 2300), including the cost of providing hospital care and medical services under the amendments made by section 101 of this title, not to exceed $17,250,000,000 for fiscal year 1997 and not to exceed $17,900,000,000 for fiscal year 1998.