US Congress House Bill 1712 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on March 23 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-03-23 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Protection and Advocacy for Veterans Act This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish a five-year grant program to improve the monitoring of VA mental health and substance abuse treatment programs. The VA shall award a grant to four protection and advocacy systems under which each recipient shall investigate and monitor VA facilities care and treatment of veterans with mental illness or substance abuse issues. Criteria for selecting recipients shall include whether the state in which the protection and advocacy system operates has low mental health, performance, and access scores. During each year in which a protection and advocacy system carries out a demonstration project, the VA shall award a joint grant to a national organization with extensive knowledge of the protection and advocacy system and a veterans service organization to: (1) coordinate training and technical assistance, and (2) provide for related data collection, reporting, and analysis. "Protection and advocacy system" means the state-established system to protect and advocate the rights of persons with developmental disabilities.

Protection and Advocacy for Veterans Act

Rep. Martha Roby [R-AL]	Rep. Dina Titus [D-NV]	Rep. Timothy Walz [D-MN]	Rep. Lee Zeldin [R-NY]
Rep. Mike Coffman [R-CO]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-03-23	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2017-03-23	House	Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
2017-03-23	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1712/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr1712/BILLS-115hr1712ih.pdf