Pub. L. 104-99, tit. II, sec. 208

Sec. 208. Public Law 104–92 is amended by repealing title II and by inserting in section 101(a) after the paragraph ending with “under the Railroad Retirement Board;” the following paragraphs: “All activities, including administrative and beneficiary travel expenses of all veterans benefit programs, necessary for the provision of veterans benefits funded in the Department of Veterans Affairs under the headings ‘Compensation and pensions’, ‘Readjustment benefits’, “Veterans insurance and indemnities’, ‘Guaranty and indemnity program account’, ‘Loan guaranty program account’, ‘Direct loan program account’, ‘Education loan fund program account’, “Vocational rehabilitation loans program account’, Native American veteran housing loan program account’, and ‘Administrative provisions, sec. 107’ to the extent and in the manner and at the rate for operations, notwithstanding any other provision of this joint resolution, provided for in the conference report and joint explanatory statement of the Committee of Conference (House Report 104–384) on the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 (H.R. 2099), as passed by the House of Representatives on December 7, 1995; “All payments to contractors of the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs for goods and services that directly relate to patient health and safety to the extent and in the manner and at the rate for operations, notwithstanding any other provision of this joint resolution, provided for in the conference report and joint explanatory statement of the Committee of Conference (House Report 104–384) on the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 (H.R. 2099), as passed by the House of Representatives on December 7, 1995;”.