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# Public Law 117–4 117th Congress 

To authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to furnish COVID–19 vaccines to certain individuals, and for other purposes. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

## SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Strengthening and Amplifying Vaccination Efforts to Locally Immunize All Veterans and Every Spouse Act’’ or the ‘‘SAVE LIVES Act’’. 

## SEC. 2. AUTHORITY OF SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS TO FUR- NISH COVID–19 VACCINE TO CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS NOT ENROLLED IN PATIENT ENROLLMENT SYSTEM OF DEPART- MENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS. 

(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Veterans Affairs may furnish a vaccine for COVID–19 to a covered individual during the COVID– 19 public health emergency. 

(b) PRIORITIZATION.—In furnishing vaccines for COVID–19 under the laws administered by the Secretary, the Secretary shall— 

(1) prioritize the vaccination of veterans who are enrolled in the patient enrollment system, veterans who receive hospital care and medical services pursuant to subsection (c)(2) of section 1705 of title 38, United States Code, and accompanying care- givers of such veterans before the vaccination of covered individ- uals not otherwise described in this paragraph; and 

(2) only furnish vaccines for COVID–19 to covered individ- uals under this section to the extent that such vaccines are available. 

(c) TIMING OF VACCINES PROVIDED TO SPOUSES OF VETERANS.— The Secretary may determine the timing for offering a vaccine for COVID–19 to the spouse of a veteran from the Department of Veterans Affairs. 

(d) VACCINE ALLOCATION.—It is the sense of Congress that, to the extent practicable based on the current national supply chain, the Secretary of Health and Human Services should adjust the allocation for the Department of Veterans Affairs for the vaccine for COVID–19 based on the additional eligibility of covered individ- uals under this section. 

(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

(1) ACCOMPANYING CAREGIVER.—The term ‘‘accompanying caregiver’’ means a caregiver described in subparagraph (D), (E), or (F) of paragraph (2) who is accompanying a veteran who is receiving a vaccine for COVID–19 furnished by the Department. 

# An Act 

Mar. 24, 2021 

[H.R. 1276] 

Strengthening and Amplifying Vaccination Efforts to Locally Immunize All Veterans and Every Spouse Act. 38 USC 1701 note. 

