US Congress House Bill 1495 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on March 10 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-03-27 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Fair Treatment for Families of Veterans Act This bill changes the effective date for reductions or discontinuances of Department of Veterans Affairs dependency and indemnity compensation by reason of the death of a payee from the last day of the month before death to the last day of the month of death. A veteran's surviving spouse who receives both dependency/indemnity compensation and service- or non-service-connected disability/death payments for the month of the veteran's death shall be entitled to the greater of the two payments.

Fair Treatment for Families of Veterans Act

Rep. Mia Love [R-UT]	Rep. Theodore Deutch [D-FL]	Rep. French Hill [R-AR]	Rep. Carlos Curbelo [R-FL]
Rep. Stevan Pearce [R-NM]	Rep. Jason Chaffetz [R-UT]	Rep. Kevin Yoder [R-KS]	Rep. Sanford Bishop [D-GA]
Rep. Tim Ryan [D-OH]	Rep. David Rouzer [R-NC]	Rep. John Garamendi [D-CA]	Rep. Carol Shea-Porter [D-NH]
Rep. Peter King [R-NY]	Rep. Lee Zeldin [R-NY]	Rep. David Loebsack [D-IA]	Rep. Gerald Connolly [D-VA]
Rep. John Delaney [D-MD]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-03-27	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
2017-03-27	House	Subcommittee on Health Discharged.
2017-03-27	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2017-03-10	House	Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
2017-03-10	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1495/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr1495/BILLS-115hr1495ih.pdf