US Congress House Bill 1067 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on February 25 2015 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2015-05-14 - Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote .
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims Reform Act This bill extends the temporary expansion of the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. Specified recall provisions for retired Court judges are amended, including changing the recall period from 90 days in a calendar year to 90 days. A regular service judge and a retired judge shall be treated as an employee for government life insurance purposes. Regular service judges, retired recall eligible judges, and certain retired but not recall-eligible judges may purchase up to an additional year of service credit for each year of federal judicial service completed. The salary of Court judges is set at the rate applicable to federal appellate court judges. (Currently, their salary is set at the rate applicable to federal district court judges.)

U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims Reform Act

Rep. Ryan Costello [R-PA]

Rep. Brenda Lawrence [D-MI]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-05-14	House	Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote .
2015-05-14	House	Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
2015-04-14	House	Subcommittee Hearings Held.
2015-03-06	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
2015-02-25	House	Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
2015-02-25	House	Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
2015-02-25	House	Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1067/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr1067/BILLS-114hr1067ih.pdf