US Congress House Bill 1055 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: Introduced on February 25 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-11-23 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Military Personnel Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Comprehensive Dental Reform Act of 2015 Removes restrictions on the authority of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide dental care to veterans (thereby requiring dental care on the same basis as other VA-provided medical care and services). Authorizes the VA, Department of Defense, Bureau of Prisons, and Indian Health Service to carry out demonstration programs to train and employ alternative dental health care providers in order to increase access to dental services. Directs the Department of Health and Human Services to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of the expansion of dental service coverage pursuant to this Act. Directs the Government Accountability Office to evaluate the implementation and utilization of expanded dental service coverage under this Act and the demonstration programs authorized by this Act.

Comprehensive Dental Reform Act of 2015

Rep. Elijah Cummings [D-MD]	Rep. Bennie Thompson [D-MS]	Rep. Charles Rangel [D-NY]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]
Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]	Rep. Marcy Kaptur [D-OH]	Rep. Jim McDermott [D-WA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-11-23	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
2015-03-27	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2015-03-23	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
2015-03-16	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
2015-03-06	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2015-02-25	House	Referred to House Armed Services
2015-02-25	House	Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
2015-02-25	House	Referred to House Natural Resources
2015-02-25	House	Referred to House Judiciary
2015-02-25	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2015-02-25	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2015-02-25	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, the Judiciary, Natural Resources, Veterans' Affairs, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2015-02-25	House	Introduced in House

SB570 (Same As) 2015-02-25 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1055/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr1055/BILLS-114hr1055ih.pdf