US Congress Senate Bill 804 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)
Status: Introduced on April 3 2017 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2017-05-17 - Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 115-299.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Women Veterans Access to Quality Care Act of 2017 This bill 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. The VA shall: (1) establish policies for environment of care inspections at VA medical centers, which shall include an alignment of inspection requirements with the women's health handbook of the Veterans Health Administration; and (2) certify that such policies have been finalized and disseminated to such centers. The VA shall: (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-gynecologist, and (4) carry out a pilot program to increase the number of residency program positions and graduate medical education positions for obstetriciangynecologists at VA medical facilities in at least three Veterans Integrated Service Networks. The VA must 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. A veteran may elect to prevent his or her information from being shared. The bill requires the VA 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 2017

Sen. Dean Heller [R-NV]	Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]	Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]
Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]	Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-05-17	Senate	Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 115-299.
2017-04-03	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

HB5966 (Related) 2018-05-24 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/804/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s804/BILLS-115s804is.pdf