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Better Workforce for Veterans Act of 2017 [S.1325]
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[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Military ]
[Public Health ]
Better Workforce for Veterans Act of 2017 This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to appoint qualified graduates and post-secondary students to competitive service positions without regard to certain federal civil service employment and retention provisions. The VA shall allow for excepted service appointments of qualifying students and recent graduates leading to career or career conditional employment. The VA may appoint: (1) highly qualified candidates without regard to competitive service provisions if the Office of Personnel
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Sponsored by: Sen. Claire McCaskill
Committee On Veterans' Affairs. Hearings Held. Hearings Printed: S.hrg. 115-320. on 07/11/2017
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National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 [HB-2810]
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[National Security ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Healthcare ]
[Veterans ]
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 This bill authorizes FY2018 appropriations and sets forth policies for Department of Defense (DOD) programs and activities, including military personnel strengths. It does not provide budget authority, which is provided in subsequent appropriations legislation. The bill authorizes appropriations to DOD for: (1) Procurement, including aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, space procurement, and other procurement; (2) Research, Development,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Adam Smith
Signed By President. on 12/12/2017
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Abolish Human Trafficking Act of 2017 [HB-2803]
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[Human Services ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Abolish Human Trafficking Act of 2017 This bill sets forth a variety of measures to address the prevention and punishment of human trafficking and to assist trafficking victims. Included among these are provisions concerning: restitution for victims; funding of investigations of offenses relating to sexual abuse of children; grants to states and localities and other entities for victim service assistance; training of health, victim service, and federal law enforcement personnel, including through the use of a victim screening protocol by the Department
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ted Poe
Referred To The Subcommittee On Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations. on 07/12/2017
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Abolish Human Trafficking Act of 2017 [S.1311]
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[Human Services ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Abolish Human Trafficking Act of 2017 This bill sets forth a variety of measures to address the prevention and punishment of human trafficking and to assist trafficking victims. Included among these are provisions concerning: restitution for victims; funding of investigations of offenses relating to sexual abuse of children; grants to states and localities and other entities for victim service assistance; training of health, victim service, and federal law enforcement personnel, including through the use of a victim screening protocol by the Department
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Sponsored by: Sen. Chuck Grassley
Signed By President. on 12/21/2018
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Requests Louisiana Department of Health to study and determine the desirability and feasibility of implementing the health home option in the medical assistance program. [SR-188]
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Requests Louisiana Department of Health to study and determine the desirability and feasibility of implementing the health home option in the medical assistance program.
Sponsored by: Sen. Regina Ashford Barrow
Enrolled. Signed By The President Of The Senate And Sent To The Secretary Of State By The Secretary Of The Senate On 6/9/2017. on 06/08/2017
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Urges and requests the Institute for Public Health and Justice and the Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections to study behavioral health issues in the criminal justice system [HCR-110]
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Urges and requests the Institute for Public Health and Justice and the Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections to study behavioral health issues in the criminal justice system
Sponsored by: Rep. Walt Leger
Signed By The President Of The Senate. on 06/05/2017
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Public Health Violence Prevention Act [HB-2757]
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[Mental Health ]
[Public Safety ]
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[Children and Youth ]
Public Health Violence Prevention Act This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to establish the National Center for Violence Prevention in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to take over the duties and authorities relating to violence prevention from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. The National Center for Violence Prevention, to address violence and prevention as health issues, must establish: (1) the Public Health Violence Prevention Program to award competitive grants to public health departments, schools
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mike Quigley
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 06/02/2017
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Child Protection and Family Support Act of 2017 [S.1268]
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[Human Services ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Social Security ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Public Health ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
Child Protection and Family Support Act of 2017 This bill amends Part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act to require the removal and foster care placement of a child to meet the requirements for foster care maintenance payments if the child has been placed with a parent residing in a licensed residential family-based treatment facility for substance abuse. The bill revises requirements for grants to regional partnerships delivering services and producing activities designed to implement IV-E prevention
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Sponsored by: Sen. Richard Blumenthal
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. (text Of Measure As Introduced: Cr S3218-3219) on 05/25/2017
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Establishing the Select Committee on Gun Violence Prevention. [HR-367]
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Establishing the Select Committee on Gun Violence Prevention. Establishes the House Select Committee on Gun Violence Prevention to investigate and report on: the causes of mass shootings, methods to improve the federal firearms purchaser background check system, connections between access to firearms and dangerously mentally ill individuals, strengthening federal penalties for trafficking and straw purchasing of firearms, closing loopholes that allow some domestic abusers continued access to firearms, linkages between firearms and suicide, gun violence's
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney
Introduced In House on 05/25/2017
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Stop Mental Health Stigma in Our Communities Act [HB-2677]
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[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
Stop Mental Health Stigma in Our Communities Act This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to develop and implement an outreach and education strategy to promote behavioral and mental health and reduce stigma associated with mental health conditions and substance abuse among the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander populations.
Sponsored by: Rep. Julia Brownley
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 05/26/2017
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Veteran Overmedication Prevention Act of 2017 [HB-2652]
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[Mental Health ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
[Public Health ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
Veteran Overmedication Prevention Act of 2017 This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to contract with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to review the deaths of all covered veterans who died by suicide during the last five years, regardless of whether information relating to such deaths has been reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A "covered veteran" is any veteran who received VA hospital care or medical services during the five-year period preceding the veteran's death. The
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mike Johnson
Introduced In House on 05/25/2017
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To direct the Secretary of Defense to more effectively provide mental health resources for members of the Armed Forces at high risk of suicide, and for other purposes. [HB-2699]
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To direct the Secretary of Defense to more effectively provide mental health resources for members of the Armed Forces at high risk of suicide, and for other purposes. This bill directs the Department of Defense (DOD) to develop a methodology to: identify units of the Armed Forces that have a disproportionately high rate of suicide and suicide attempts; provide additional mental health resources for members of the Armed Forces deployed with such units; identify the circumstances of deployments associated with increased vulnerability to suicide,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel T. Kildee
Referred To The Subcommittee On Military Personnel. on 07/17/2017
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RESET Act Reclassification to Ensure Smarter and Equal Treatment Act of 2017 [S.1252]
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RESET Act Reclassification to Ensure Smarter and Equal Treatment Act of 2017
Sponsored by: Sen. Brian Schatz
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On The Judiciary. on 05/25/2017
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To designate the Mental Health Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Facility Expansion of the Department of Veterans Affairs Alvin C. York Medical Center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, as the "Sergeant John Toombs Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Facility". [HB-2634]
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To designate the Mental Health Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Facility Expansion of the Department of Veterans Affairs Alvin C. York Medical Center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, as the "Sergeant John Toombs Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Facility". (Sec. 2) This bill designates the Mental Health Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Facility Expansion of the Department of Veterans Affairs' Alvin C. York Medical Center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, as the "Sergeant John Toombs Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Facility."
Sponsored by: Rep. Steve Cohen
Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Veterans' Affairs. on 09/26/2018
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Teacher Health and Wellness Act [HB-2544]
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[Mental Health ]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Teacher Health and Wellness Act This bill directs the National Institutes of Health to carry out a five-year study on reducing teacher stress and increasing teacher retention and well-being by implementing and analyzing the results of any of several types of innovative approaches that include: workplace wellness programs; social emotional learning programs; teacher stress management programs; mentoring and induction programs during the school year and teacher pre-service; organizational interventions such as principal training programs; teacher
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Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Lee
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 05/19/2017
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Stop Illegal Trafficking in Firearms Act of 2017 [S.1185]
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[Crime ]
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Stop Illegal Trafficking in Firearms Act of 2017
Sponsored by: Sen. Susan M. Collins
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On The Judiciary. (sponsor Introductory Remarks On Measure: Cr S3043-3044) on 05/18/2017
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CONNECT for Health Act of 2017 Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies for Health Act of 2017 [HB-2556]
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[Technology and Innovation ]
[Telecommunications ]
CONNECT for Health Act of 2017 Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies for Health Act of 2017
Sponsored by: Rep. David G. Valadao
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 06/01/2017
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Building a Health Care Workforce for the Future Act [HB-2574]
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[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Public Health ]
[Education ]
Building a Health Care Workforce for the Future Act This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award matching grants to enable states to implement scholarship programs to ensure an adequate supply of health professionals. Scholarships must cover tuition and educational expenses and provide a cost-of-living stipend. Scholarship recipients must agree to serve as providers in shortage areas in the state for one year for each year they receive the scholarship. HHS may award grants to
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Sponsored by: Rep. Steve Cohen
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 05/26/2017
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Arizona Fifty-third Legislature - First Regular Session (2017)
Veterans; mental health courts; establishment [HB-2474]
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Veterans; mental health courts; establishment
Sponsored by: Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley
House Read Second Time on 02/08/2017
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Alabama Regular Session 2017
Suicide, training of public school educators to provide mental health first aid to students [SB-296]
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[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Healthcare ]
Suicide, training of public school educators to provide mental health first aid to students
Sponsored by: Sen. William M. Beasley
Third Reading Carried Over To Call Of The Chair on 05/02/2017