US Congress House Bill 1356 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 67-37-1)
Status: Introduced on March 13 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-03-19 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Women Veterans Access to Quality Care Act of 2015 Directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to: (1) establish standards to ensure that all VA medical facilities have the structural characteristics necessary to adequately meet the gender-specific health care needs of veterans at such facilities, including privacy, safety, and dignity; (2) integrate such standards into its prioritization methodology with respect to requests for funding major medical facility projects and major medical facility leases; and (3) report on such standards, including regarding the facilities that fail to meet such standards and the costs of projects and leases required to meet them. Requires the VA to: (1) use health outcomes for women veterans furnished health care by the the VA in evaluating the performance of VA medical center directors, (2) publish on its website information on such performance and on health outcomes for women veterans for each VA medical facility, (3) ensure that every VA medical center has a full-time obstetrician or gynecologist, and (4) carry out a pilot program to increase the number of residency program positions and graduate medical education positions for obstetricians and gynecologists at VA medical facilities in not less than three Veterans Integrated Service Networks. Directs the VA to develop procedures to share information that includes military service and separation data, personal email addresses and telephone numbers, and mailing addresses of veterans with state veterans agencies in electronic format as a means of facilitating the furnishing of assistance and benefits to such veterans. Allows a veteran to elect to prevent their information from being shared. Directs the Government Accountability Office to carry out an examination of whether VA medical centers are able to meet the health care needs of women veterans.

Women Veterans Access to Quality Care Act of 2015

Rep. Mike Coffman [R-CO]	Rep. Jackie Speier [D-CA]	Sen. Kyrsten Sinema [I-AZ]	Rep. Kathleen Rice [D-NY]
Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]	Rep. Jared Polis [D-CO]	Rep. James Langevin [D-RI]	Rep. Anna Eshoo [D-CA]
Rep. Suzan DelBene [D-WA]	Rep. Walter Jones [R-NC]	Rep. Alma Adams [D-NC]	Rep. Jose Serrano [D-NY]
Rep. Judy Chu [D-CA]	Rep. Doris Matsui [D-CA]	Rep. Dina Titus [D-NV]	Rep. Ryan Zinke [R-MT]
Rep. Elizabeth Esty [D-CT]	Rep. Eric Swalwell [D-CA]	Sen. Martha McSally [R-AZ]	Rep. Jim McDermott [D-WA]
Rep. Madeleine Bordallo [D-GU]	Rep. Thomas MacArthur [R-NJ]	Rep. Mark DeSaulnier [D-CA]	Rep. Joe Wilson [R-SC]
Rep. Rob Bishop [R-UT]	Rep. David Jolly [R-FL]	Rep. Derek Kilmer [D-WA]	Rep. Brad Ashford [D-NE]
Rep. Susan Brooks [R-IN]	Rep. Filemon Vela [D-TX]	Sen. Kevin Cramer [R-ND]	Rep. Curt Clawson [R-FL]
Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Rep. Sean Maloney [D-NY]	Rep. Debbie Dingell [D-MI]	Rep. Mike Thompson [D-CA]
Rep. Gerald Connolly [D-VA]	Rep. Michael Honda [D-CA]	Rep. Bobby Rush [D-IL]	Rep. Timothy Walz [D-MN]
Rep. Cheri Bustos [D-IL]	Rep. Tim Ryan [D-OH]	Rep. Eliot Engel [D-NY]	Rep. Ruben Hinojosa [D-TX]
Rep. Brenda Lawrence [D-MI]	Rep. Marc Veasey [D-TX]	Rep. Nita Lowey [D-NY]	Rep. Austin Scott [R-GA]
Sen. Peter Welch [D-VT]	Rep. John Kline [R-MN]	Rep. Garland Barr [R-KY]	Rep. Scott Peters [D-CA]
Rep. Christopher Gibson [R-NY]	Rep. David Young [R-IA]	Rep. Robert Wittman [R-VA]	Rep. Joyce Beatty [D-OH]
Rep. Blake Farenthold [R-TX]	Rep. Julia Brownley [D-CA]	Rep. Louise Slaughter [D-NY]	Rep. Kay Granger [R-TX]
Rep. Robert Scott [D-VA]	Rep. Suzanne Bonamici [D-OR]	Rep. Don Beyer [D-VA]	Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham [D-NM]
Rep. Lynn Jenkins [R-KS]	Rep. Andre Carson [D-IN]	Rep. Mark Pocan [D-WI]	Rep. Mark Amodei [R-NV]
Rep. Patrick Murphy [D-FL]	Rep. Ander Crenshaw [R-FL]	Rep. Mo Brooks [R-AL]	Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard [D-CA]
Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]	Rep. Keith Ellison [D-MN]	Rep. David McKinley [R-WV]	Rep. Robert Pittenger [R-NC]
Rep. Peter King [R-NY]	Rep. Brett Guthrie [R-KY]	Rep. David Price [D-NC]	Rep. Ted Lieu [D-CA]
Rep. Pete Aguilar [D-CA]	Rep. Ken Calvert [R-CA]	Rep. Elise Stefanik [R-NY]	Rep. Niki Tsongas [D-MA]
Rep. Scott Rigell [R-VA]	Rep. Elijah Cummings [D-MD]	Rep. French Hill [R-AR]	Rep. Barbara Comstock [R-VA]
Rep. James Himes [D-CT]	Rep. Stephen Lynch [D-MA]	Rep. Lee Zeldin [R-NY]	Rep. Seth Moulton [D-MA]
Rep. Loretta Sanchez [D-CA]	Rep. Ann Kuster [D-NH]	Rep. Collin Peterson [D-MN]	Sen. Ben Lujan [D-NM]
Rep. David Scott [D-GA]	Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick [D-AZ]	Rep. John Carney [D-DE]	Rep. John Katko [R-NY]
Rep. Mike Bost [R-IL]	Rep. Amata Radewagen [R-AS]	Rep. Tom Reed [R-NY]	Rep. Denny Heck [D-WA]
Rep. John Delaney [D-MD]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-03-19	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2015-03-13	House	Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
2015-03-13	House	Introduced in House

SB471 (Same As) 2015-06-03 - Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1356/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr1356/BILLS-114hr1356ih.pdf