Bill Text: OR SJM4 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

Oregon Senate Joint Memorial 4 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Urging Congress to fund women veterans' mobile health care buses.

Sponsorship: Unknown

Status: (Failed) 2011-06-30 - In committee upon adjournment. [SJM4 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2011-SJM4-Introduced.html



     76th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2011 Regular Session

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                     Senate Joint Memorial 4

Printed pursuant to Senate Interim Rule 213.28 by order of the
  President of the Senate in conformance with presession filing
  rules, indicating neither advocacy nor opposition on the part
  of the President (at the request of Senate Interim Committee on
  Veterans' Affairs)

                             SUMMARY

The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.

  Urges Congress to fund women veterans' mobile health care buses
to provide health care to Oregon women veterans in their
communities.

                         JOINT MEMORIAL
To the President of the United States and the Senate and the
  House of Representatives of the United States of America, in
  Congress assembled:
  We, your memorialists, the Seventy-sixth Legislative Assembly
of the State of Oregon, in legislative session assembled,
respectfully represent as follows:
  Whereas the United States Department of Veterans Affairs
Veterans Health Administration is charged with providing health
care, including mental health care, to all eligible veterans,
including women veterans; and
  Whereas Oregon has more than 25,000 women veterans from all
eras of service; and
  Whereas more than 240,000 women veterans have served in
Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom; and
  Whereas the department's health care system presents barriers
to health care for women veterans; and
  Whereas many women veterans in Oregon live in rural and remote
parts of this state without reasonable access to health care
provided by the department; and
  Whereas no woman veteran should have to forgo earned medical
benefits provided by the department due to physical or emotional
barriers; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of
  Oregon:
  (1) The Congress of the United States is urged to fund women
veterans' mobile health care buses, staffed by the United States
Department of Veterans Affairs with trained physical and mental
health professionals, that will travel throughout Oregon
providing health care to women veterans in their communities.
  (2) A copy of this memorial shall be sent to the President of
the United States, to the Senate Majority Leader, to the Speaker

of the House of Representatives and to each member of the Oregon
Congressional Delegation.
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