Department for any fiscal year (as submitted with the budget of the President under section 1105(a) of title 31), the Secretary shall include a separate statement of the amount requested to be appropriated for that fiscal year for the account specified in paragraph (1). (n) Authorization of appropriations There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary, for each of fiscal years 2025 and 2026, $10,000,000 to carry out this section. (o) Definitions In this section: (1) The terms caregiver and family caregiver have the meanings given those terms in section 1720G of this title. (2) The term family caregiver program means the program of comprehensive assistance for family caregivers under section 1720G of this title. (3) The term Veterans Crisis Line means the toll-free hotline for veterans established under section 1720F of this title. . 123. Home- and community-based services: programs (a) Programs Such subchapter is further amended by inserting after section 1720K (as added by section 122) the following new section (and conforming the table of sections at the beginning of such chapter accordingly): 1720L. Home- and community-based services: programs (a) In general In furnishing noninstitutional alternatives to nursing home care pursuant to the authority of section 1720C of this title (or any other authority under this chapter or other provision of law administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs), the Secretary shall carry out each of the programs specified in this section in accordance with such relevant authorities except as otherwise provided in this section. (b) Veteran-Directed Care program (1) The Secretary of Veterans Affairs, in collaboration with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall carry out a program to be known as the Veteran-Directed Care program . Under such program, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs may enter into agreements with the providers described in paragraph (2) to provide to eligible veterans funds, to the extent practicable, to obtain such in-home care services