HR-681: Honoring women who have served, and who are currently serving, as members of the Armed Forces and recognizing the recently expanded service opportunities available to female members of the Armed Forces.
Sponsored by: Rep. James McGovern
Referred To The Subcommittee On Military Personnel. on 05/05/2016
You have voted HR-681: Honoring women who have served, and who are currently serving, as members of the Armed Forces and recognizing the recently expanded service opportunities available to female members of the Armed Forces..
HR-643: Honoring women who have served, and who are currently serving, as members of the Armed Forces and recognizing the recently expanded service opportunities available to female members of the Armed Forces.
Sponsored by: Rep. Loretta Sanchez
Referred To The Subcommittee On Military Personnel. on 03/21/2016
You have voted HR-643: Honoring women who have served, and who are currently serving, as members of the Armed Forces and recognizing the recently expanded service opportunities available to female members of the Armed Forces..
HR-443: Commending the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs for their joint campaign to raise awareness during September, Suicide Prevention Month, to reduce suicide among members of the United States Armed Forces and veterans.
Sponsored by: Rep. Tony Cardenas
Referred To The Subcommittee On Military Personnel. on 11/23/2015
You have voted HR-443: Commending the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs for their joint campaign to raise awareness during September, Suicide Prevention Month, to reduce suicide among members of the United States Armed Forces and veterans..
Expressing support for designation of the month of June 2015 as "National Post-Traumatic Stress Awareness Month" and June 27, 2015, as "National Post-Traumatic Stress Awareness Day". [HR-345]
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Expressing support for designation of the month of June 2015 as "National Post-Traumatic Stress Awareness Month" and June 27, 2015, as "National Post-Traumatic Stress Awareness Day". Supports: the designation of National Post-Traumatic Stress Awareness Month and National Post-Traumatic Stress Awareness Day; and efforts of the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense, as well as the medical community, to educate members of the Armed Forces, veterans, their families, and the public about the causes, symptoms, and treatment of post-traumatic
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HR-345: Expressing support for designation of the month of June 2015 as "National Post-Traumatic Stress Awareness Month" and June 27, 2015, as "National Post-Traumatic Stress Awareness Day".
Sponsored by: Rep. Eleanor Norton
Referred To The Subcommittee On Military Personnel. on 08/13/2015
You have voted HR-345: Expressing support for designation of the month of June 2015 as "National Post-Traumatic Stress Awareness Month" and June 27, 2015, as "National Post-Traumatic Stress Awareness Day"..
Hire More Heroes Act of 2015 [HJR-61]
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Hire More Heroes Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This joint resolution amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt any employee with coverage under a health care program administered by the Department of Defense, including the TRICARE program, or by the Department of Veterans Affairs from classification as an eligible employee of an applicable large employer for purposes of the employer mandate under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to provide eligible employees with minimum essential health care coverage. (Sec. 3) The budgetary effects of this
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HJR-61: Hire More Heroes Act of 2015
Sponsored by: Rep. Tulsi Gabbard
S.amdt.2676 Considered By Senate. (consideration: Cr S6910) on 09/24/2015
Audit the Pentagon Act of 2015 [HB-942]
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Audit the Pentagon Act of 2015 This bill reduces discretionary spending by 0.5% for federal agencies that have either not submitted a financial statement for a fiscal year or have submitted a financial statement that has not received an unqualified or a qualified audit opinion by an independent external auditor. The bill excludes specified Department of Defense (DOD) accounts for personnel and the Defense Health Program from the reductions. The President may waive the reductions for any account by certifying that the cuts would harm national security
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HB-942: Audit the Pentagon Act of 2015
Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Lee
Introduced In House on 02/12/2015
Veterans TRICARE Choice Act [HB-868]
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Veterans TRICARE Choice Act Allows an individual who is eligible to participate in the TRICARE program (a Department of Defense [DOD] managed health care program) to: (1) elect to be ineligible to enroll in such program, (2) make tax deductible contributions to a health savings account during the period such individual elects to be ineligible for TRICARE coverage, and (3) enroll in the TRICARE program at a later date during a special enrollment period. Requires DOD to: (1) submit to the Internal Revenue Service information on each TRICARE-eligible
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HB-868: Veterans TRICARE Choice Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Ted Poe
Referred To The Subcommittee On Military Personnel. on 11/23/2015
Chiropractic Health Parity for Military Beneficiaries Act [HB-802]
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Chiropractic Health Parity for Military Beneficiaries Act Directs the Department of Defense (DOD), no later than August 31, 2015, to complete development of a plan to provide chiropractic health care services and benefits for certain covered beneficiaries as a permanent part of DOD's TRICARE program. Requires plan implementation by January 31, 2016.
HB-802: Chiropractic Health Parity for Military Beneficiaries Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Raul Grijalva
Referred To The Subcommittee On Military Personnel. on 11/23/2015
Access to Contraception for Women Servicemembers and Dependents Act of 2015 [HB-742]
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Access to Contraception for Women Servicemembers and Dependents Act of 2015 Expands the TRICARE health care program managed by the Department of Defense (DOD) to entitle additional female beneficiaries and dependents to care related to the prevention of pregnancy. (Currently, such care is limited to certain female members of the uniformed service or a reserve component performing active duty or certain servicewomen performing inactive-duty training.) Prohibits cost-sharing from being imposed or collected for such pregnancy prevention care, including
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HB-742: Access to Contraception for Women Servicemembers and Dependents Act of 2015
Sponsored by: Rep. Raul Grijalva
Referred To The Subcommittee On Military Personnel. on 08/13/2015
Clinical Trial Cancer Mission 2020 Act [HB-617]
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Clinical Trial Cancer Mission 2020 Act Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise clinical trial registry data bank provisions to specify that a device or drug clinical trial must be included in the clinical trial registry data bank regardless of whether it results in a positive or negative outcome. Requires the responsible party of any clinical trials funded in whole or in part by the Department of Defense (DOD) to certify in all required grant or progress forms that the required submissions to the clinical trial registry data bank have been
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HB-617: Clinical Trial Cancer Mission 2020 Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Louise Slaughter
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 01/30/2015
SAVE Act Savings, Accountability, Value, and Efficiency Act of 2015 [HB-614]
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SAVE Act Savings, Accountability, Value, and Efficiency Act of 2015 TITLE I--SAVE I Savings, Accountability, Value, and Efficiency I Act or the SAVE I Act Requires, every two years: (1) the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to publish a national strategy for managing excess and underutilized federal real property; and (2) the Administrator of the General Services Administration to implement a plan to improve the Federal Real Property Profile that ensures the data collected is complete, accurate, and consistent. Requires the Administrator for
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HB-614: SAVE Act Savings, Accountability, Value, and Efficiency Act of 2015
Sponsored by: Rep. Ann Kuster
Referred To The Subcommittee On Oversight And Investigations. on 02/13/2015
Mental Health Care Provider Retention Act of 2016 [HB-5648]
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Mental Health Care Provider Retention Act of 2016 This bill allows an individual who has been diagnosed with a mental health condition and who is transitioning from receiving treatment from the Department of Defense to receiving treatment from in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to elect to continue receiving treatment from such individual's DOD mental health provider. Such individual shall receive the same level of priority as members of the Armed Forces at the facility at which the individual has elected to continue treatment. The VA shall
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HB-5648: Mental Health Care Provider Retention Act of 2016
Sponsored by: Rep. Walter Jones
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 07/14/2016
VA Accountability First and Appeals Modernization Act of 2016 [HB-5620]
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VA Accountability First and Appeals Modernization Act of 2016 This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to remove or demote a VA employee based on performance or misconduct and provides that specified federal employee performance appraisal provisions shall not apply to such removals or demotions. The VA may remove such individual from the civil service or demote the individual through a reduction in grade or annual pay rate. A demoted individual shall not be placed on administrative leave or any other category of paid leave during
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HB-5620: VA Accountability First and Appeals Modernization Act of 2016
Sponsored by: Rep. Gus Bilirakis
Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Veterans' Affairs. on 09/15/2016
Veterans TRICARE Choice Act of 2016 [HB-5458]
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Veterans TRICARE Choice Act of 2016 This bill allows, as of January 1, 2017, an individual who is eligible to be a covered beneficiary entitled to health care benefits under the TRICARE program (a Department of Defense [DOD] managed health care program) and who is not serving on active duty in the uniformed services to: (1) elect to be ineligible to enroll in TRICARE, (2) make tax deductible contributions to a health savings account during the period such individual elects to be ineligible for TRICARE coverage, and (3) enroll in the TRICARE program
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HB-5458: Veterans TRICARE Choice Act of 2016
Sponsored by: Rep. Earl Blumenauer
Received In The Senate. on 11/30/2016
Veteran Prescription Continuity Act [HB-5337]
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Veteran Prescription Continuity Act This bill amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 to direct the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to furnish an individual who is transitioning from Department of Defense (DOD)- to VA-furnished medical treatment any pharmaceutical agent not included in the joint uniform formulary if a DOD health care provider determines that the pharmaceutical agent is critical for the transition. The VA shall furnish an individual with such pharmaceutical agent: (1) beginning when the individual enrolls
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HB-5337: Veteran Prescription Continuity Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Dina Titus
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 06/13/2016
Dust Off Crews of the Vietnam War Congressional Gold Medal Act [HB-5299]
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Dust Off Crews of the Vietnam War Congressional Gold Medal Act This bill directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to make appropriate arrangements for the presentation of a single gold medal in honor of the Dust Off crews (helicopter air ambulance crews) of the Vietnam War in recognition of their heroic military service. It is the sense of Congress that the Smithsonian Institution should also make such medal available for display elsewhere, particularly at appropriate locations associated with
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HB-5299: Dust Off Crews of the Vietnam War Congressional Gold Medal Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Susan Brooks
Introduced In House on 05/19/2016
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2017 [HB-5293]
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Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2017 TITLE I--MILITARY PERSONNEL Provides appropriations for active-duty and reserve personnel in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force (the military departments), and for National Guard personnel in the Army and Air Force. TITLE II--OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE Provides appropriations for Operation and Maintenance (O&M) for the military departments, other agencies of DOD, the Reserve Components, and the Army and Air National Guard. Provides appropriations for: the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed
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HB-5293: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2017
Sponsored by: Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen
Second Cloture On The Motion To Proceed To The Measure Not Invoked In Senate By Yea-nay Vote. 55 - 43. Record Vote Number: 136. (consideration: Cr S5239-5240) on 09/06/2016