<div class="xtend"><a id="pl.1.1"></a><var>1.1</var>A resolution<br />
         		<a id="pl.1.2"></a><var>1.2</var>urging the federal government to provide funding so the state can reimburse medical <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.3"></a><var>1.3</var>providers for performing routine procedures and tests on certain veterans.<br />
         		<a id="pl.1.4"></a><var>1.4</var>WHEREAS, Minnesota veterans authorized to have procedures and tests performed at <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.5"></a><var>1.5</var>federally funded medical facilities often live 50 or more miles from the nearest such facility; and <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.6"></a><var>1.6</var>WHEREAS, many Minnesota veterans need assistance from others to travel to federally <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.7"></a><var>1.7</var>funded medical facilities; and <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.8"></a><var>1.8</var>WHEREAS, for those veterans and their helpers and for those who can travel without <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.9"></a><var>1.9</var>assistance, hours are spent in increasingly expensive travel to have routine procedures and tests <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.10"></a><var>1.10</var>performed; and <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.11"></a><var>1.11</var>WHEREAS, those routine procedures and tests could be performed more easily and <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.12"></a><var>1.12</var>efficiently closer to home at little or no cost to the federal government if the medical providers <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.13"></a><var>1.13</var>were reimbursed; NOW, THEREFORE, <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.14"></a><var>1.14</var>BE IT RESOLVED by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota that it urges, the President <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.15"></a><var>1.15</var>and the Congress of the United States to provide additional funding to the state of Minnesota so <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.16"></a><var>1.16</var>that the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs can reimburse medical providers for routine <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.17"></a><var>1.17</var>medical procedures and tests provided to a veteran if the veteran: (1) is authorized to receive the <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.18"></a><var>1.18</var>procedures and tests at a federally funded facility; and (2) the veteran's residence is located more <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.19"></a><var>1.19</var>than 50 miles from the location where the federally funded medical care will be provided.<br />
         		<a id="pl.1.20"></a><var>1.20</var>BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of State of the State of Minnesota is <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.21"></a><var>1.21</var>directed to prepare copies of this memorial resolution and transmit them to the President of <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.22"></a><var>1.22</var>the United States, the President and the Secretary of the United States Senate, the Speaker and <br />
         		<a id="pl.2.1"></a><var>2.1</var>the Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, the chair of the Senate Committee on <br />
         		<a id="pl.2.2"></a><var>2.2</var>Veterans' Affairs, the chair of the House of Representatives Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and <br />
         		<a id="pl.2.3"></a><var>2.3</var>Minnesota's Senators and Representatives in Congress.<br />
         		
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