---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2641a"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2641a"
heading: "Transportation of American Samoa veterans on Department of Defense aircraft for certain medical care in Hawaii"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2641a"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Property"
  - "Chapter 157 — Transportation"
---

# §2641a. Transportation of American Samoa veterans on Department of Defense aircraft for certain medical care in Hawaii

- (a) **Transportation Authorized.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense may provide transportation on [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense aircraft for the purpose of transporting any veteran specified in [subsection (b)](#b) between American Samoa and the [State](/usc/10/4951.md?p=4) of Hawaii if such transportation is required in order to provide hospital care to such veteran as described in that subsection.
- (b) **Veterans Eligible for Transport.—** A veteran eligible for transport under [subsection (a)](#a) is any veteran who—
  - (1) resides in and is located in American Samoa; and
  - (2) as determined by an official of the Department of Veterans Affairs designated for that purpose by the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Veterans Affairs, must be transported to the [State](/usc/10/4951.md?p=4) of Hawaii in order to receive hospital care to which such veteran is entitled under [chapter 17](/usc/38/chptII/ch17.md) of title 38 in [facilities](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) of such [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) in the [State](/usc/10/4951.md?p=4) of Hawaii.
- (c) **Administration.—**
  - (1) Transportation may be provided to veterans under this section only on a space-available basis.
  - (2) A charge may not be imposed on a veteran for transportation provided to the veteran under this section.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 105–262, title VIII, § 8121(a), Oct. 17, 1998, 112 Stat. 2332; amended Pub. L. 106–65, div. A, title X, § 1066(a)(24), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 771.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1999—Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 106–65, § 1066(a)(24)(A), struck out “, United States Code,” after “title 38”.

Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 106–65, § 1066(a)(24)(B), struck out heading and text of subsec. (d). Text read as follows: “In this section:

“(1) The term ‘veteran’ has the meaning given that term in section 101(2) of title 38, United States Code.

“(2) The term ‘hospital care’ has the meaning given that term in section 1701(5) of title 38, United States Code.”