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REPUBLICAN PRESS RELEASE
April 30, 2008
VA Committee Approves Benefit and Health
Legislation
For more information, contact: Brian Lawrence, (202) 225-3527
Washington, D.C. — The Committee on Veterans’ Affairs held a mark-up today
on fourteen veterans’ benefit and health bills.
The following bills were approved by voice vote and ordered favorably to
the House:
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H.R.
2790, as amended, introduced by Committee Member Phil Hare (D-Ill.),
to amend title 38, United States Code, to establish the position of
Director of Physician Assistant Services within the office of the Under
Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health.
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H.R.
3819, introduced by
Committee Member Zachary Space (D-Ohio), to amend title 38, United
States Code, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to reimburse
veterans receiving emergency treatment in
non-Department of
Veterans Affairs
facilities for such treatment until such veterans are transferred to
Department facilities, and for other purposes.
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H.R.
5729, as amended, introduced by U.S. Rep. Brad Ellsworth (D-Ind.),
to amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of
Veterans Affairs to provide comprehensive health care to children of
veterans born with Spina Bifida, and for other purposes.
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H.R.
5554, as amended, introduced by Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael
Michaud (D-Maine), to amend title 38, United States Code, to expand and
improve health care services available to veterans from the Department
of Veterans Affairs for substance use disorders, and for other purposes.
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H.R.
5856, introduced by Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael Michaud
(D-Maine), to authorize major medical facility projects and major
medical facility leases for the Department of Veterans Affairs for
fiscal year 2009, and for other purposes.
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H.R.
3681, as amended, introduced by EO Subcommittee Ranking Member John
Boozman (R-Ark.), to amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize
the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to advertise in the national media to
promote awareness of benefits under laws administered by the Secretary.
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H.R.
3889, as amended, introduced by EO Subcommittee Ranking Member John
Boozman (R-Ark.), to amend title 38, United States Code, to require the
Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a longitudinal study of the
vocational rehabilitation programs administered by the Secretary.
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H.R.
4883, as amended, introduced by Committee Chairman Bob Filner (D-Calif.),
to amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to provide for a limitation
on the sale, foreclosure, or seizure of property owned by a
servicemember during the one-year period following the servicemember's
period of military service.
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H.R.
4889, as amended, introduced by Committee Chairman Bob Filner (D-Calif.),
to amend title 38, United States Code, to recodify as part of that title
chapter 1607 of title 10, United States Code.
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H.R.
5664, as amended, introduced by Committee Member Ciro Rodriguez
(D-Texas), to amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the
Secretary of Veterans Affairs to update at least once every six years
the plans and specifications for specially adapted housing furnished to
veterans by the Secretary.
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H.R.
4884, as amended, introduced by Committee Chairman Bob Filner (D-Calif.),
to amend title 38, United States Code, to make certain improvements in
the home loan guaranty programs administered by the Secretary of
Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
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H.R.
5684, as amended, introduced by EO Subcommittee Chairwoman Stephanie
Herseth Sandlin (D-S.D.), to amend title 38, United States Code, to make
certain improvements in the basic educational assistance program
administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and for other
purposes.
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H.R.
5826, introduced by introduced by Committee Member Ciro Rodriguez
(D-Texas), to increase, effective as of December 1, 2008, the rates of
disability compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities
and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for survivors of
certain service-connected disabled veterans, and for other purposes.
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H.R.
5892, introduced by Committee Member John Hall (D-N.Y.), to amend
title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans
Affairs to modernize the disability benefits claims processing system of
the Department of Veterans Affairs to ensure the accurate and timely
delivery of compensation to veterans and their families and survivors,
and for other purposes.
“Through the hard,
bi-partisan work of the members and staff, the House Committee on
Veterans' Affairs has passed important legislation that if enacted will
greatly benefit our nation's veterans,” Buyer said. “However, I am
concerned that the redefinition of combat contained in Section 101 of HR
5892 and the elimination of the home loan fees contained in HR 4884
represent radical departures from current policy. In addition, many of
these bills were ordered reported without the required mandatory
spending offsets necessary to move them to the House floor. I look
forward to working with my colleagues to resolve these issues and pass
the bills in a timely fashion.”
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