MEDICAL PROGRAMS.

SEC 801. MEDICAL PROGRAMS. (a) Authorization of Appropriations.— There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Veterans’ Administration for each of fiscal years 1989 and 1990, in addition to any funds appropriated pursuant to any other authorization (whether definite or indefinite) of appropriations for those fiscal years, the sum of $30,000,000 for the medical care of veterans by the Veterans’ Administration. (b) Domiciliary Care.— Of the amount appropriated pursuant to subsection (a), 50 percent shall be available for— (1) converting to use for domiciliary care beds the underused space located in facilities under the jurisdiction of the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs in urban areas in which there are significant numbers of homeless veterans; and (2) furnishing domiciliary care in such beds to eligible veterans (primarily homeless veterans) who are in need of such care. (c) Chronically Mentally III Homeless Veterans.— Of the amount appropriated pursuant to subsection (a), 50 percent shall be available for furnishing care and treatment and rehabilitative services under section 115 of the Veterans Benefits and Services Act of 1988 (Public Law 100–322; 102 Stat. 501) to homeless veterans who have a chronic mental illness disability. Not more than $500,000 of the amount available under the preceding sentence shall be used for the purpose of monitoring the furnishing of such care and services and, in furtherance of such purpose, maintaining in the Veterans’ Administration the equivalent of 10 full-time employees. (d) Limitation.— Nothing in this section shall result in the diminution of the conversion of hospital-care beds to nursing-home-care beds by the Veterans’ Administration.