HR 2634 · 107th Congress 2001–2003, ended

Equitable Care for All Veterans Act

Introduced Jul 25, 2001 Originated House Sponsor Rodney P. Frelinghuysen R-NJ

Latest action · Aug 15, 2001 Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.

Progress

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IntroducedJul 25, 2001
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Equitable Care for All Veterans Act - Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to modify the funding allocation formula for the Department of Veterans Affairs medical care system known as the Veterans Resource Allocation (VERA) system to provide for the incorporation of regional differences in the cost of providing health care to veterans as part of the criteria used to determine the national means differential used. Directs the Secretary to evaluate the effects of such modifications on the regional allocation of funds available to the Department of Veterans Affairs for health care and, if the modifications do not result in a substantive shift in such allocations, to terminate VERA.

Directs the Secretary, if required to terminate VERA, to develop a new formula for the allocation of funds to the Department's national service regions, known as Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISNs), that takes into account specified requirements, including additional costs incurred by a VISN because the age of veterans, or the number of veterans requiring complex care, in that VISN exceeds the median for all VISNs.

Authorizes additional appropriations to be allocated to VISNs that have experienced funding reductions.

Cosponsors 31

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 25, 2001 to Dec 20, 2001; 29 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-NY	Anthony D. Weiner	Original	Jul 25, 2001
R-NY	Benjamin A. Gilman	Original	Jul 25, 2001
I-VT	Bernard Sanders	Original	Jul 25, 2001
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.	Original	Jul 25, 2001
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney	Original	Jul 25, 2001
D-NY	Carolyn McCarthy	Original	Jul 25, 2001
R-NH	Charles F. Bass	Original	Jul 25, 2001
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne	Original	Jul 25, 2001
R-NY	Felix J. Grucci Jr.	Original	Jul 25, 2001
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.	Original	Jul 25, 2001
D-NY	Gary L. Ackerman	Original	Jul 25, 2001
R-NJ	Jim Saxton	Original	Jul 25, 2001
D-CT	John B. Larson	Original	Jul 25, 2001
R-NY	John E. Sweeney	Original	Jul 25, 2001
D-NY	John J. LaFalce	Original	Jul 25, 2001
R-NY	John M. McHugh	Original	Jul 25, 2001
D-NY	Joseph Crowley	Original	Jul 25, 2001
R-NJ	Marge Roukema	Original	Jul 25, 2001
D-NY	Maurice D. Hinchey	Original	Jul 25, 2001
D-NY	Michael R. McNulty	Original	Jul 25, 2001
R-NJ	Mike Ferguson	Original	Jul 25, 2001
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez	Original	Jul 25, 2001
R-NY	Peter T. King	Original	Jul 25, 2001
D-NJ	Robert Menendez	Original	Jul 25, 2001
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro	Original	Jul 25, 2001
D-NJ	Rush Holt	Original	Jul 25, 2001
D-NJ	Steven R. Rothman	Original	Jul 25, 2001
R-NY	Sue W. Kelly	Original	Jul 25, 2001
R-NY	Vito Fossella	Original	Jul 25, 2001
R-CT	Nancy L. Johnson		Dec 20, 2001
D-NY	Nita M. Lowey		Dec 20, 2001

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Veterans' Affairs Committee	Referred Jul 25, 2001
	Benefits Subcommittee	Referred Aug 15, 2001

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Aug 15, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
Jul 25, 2001Introduced in House
Jul 25, 2001Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to modify the formula, known as the Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation (VERA) system, for the allocation of funds appropriated to the Department of Veterans Affairs for medical care to different geographic regions of the Nation, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: Equitable Care for All Veterans Act

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security.

Text 1

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Jul 25, 2001Introduced in House

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