US Congress Senate Bill 471 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-2)
Status: Introduced on February 12 2015 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2015-06-03 - Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
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

Sen. Dean Heller [R-NV]	Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]	Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]	Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]
Sen. Chuck Grassley [R-IA]	Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]	Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]	Sen. Barbara Boxer [D-CA]
Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]	Sen. Charles Schumer [D-NY]	Sen. Maria Cantwell [D-WA]
Sen. Michael Bennet [D-CO]	Sen. Brian Schatz [D-HI]	Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]	Sen. Mark Warner [D-VA]
Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]	Sen. Gary Peters [D-MI]	Sen. Claire McCaskill [D-MO]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-06-03	Senate	Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
2015-02-12	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

HB1356 (Same As) 2015-03-19 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/471/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s471/BILLS-114s471is.pdf