HR 5250 · 107th Congress 2001–2003, ended

Veterans Health Care Funding Guarantee Act of 2002

Introduced Jul 26, 2002 Originated House Sponsor Christopher H. Smith R-NJ

Latest action · Aug 9, 2002 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedJul 26, 2002
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Veterans Health Care Funding Guarantee Act of 2002 - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) make available to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for programs, functions, and activities of the Veterans Health Administration for FY 2004 120 percent of the amount obligated during FY 2002; and (2) adjust the amount provided after FY 2004 based on the number of enrolled veterans and the number of others eligible for and provided care and the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index.

Repeals, as of October 1, 2003, requirements for the prior congressional approval of funding for Department major medical facilities projects or leases.

Cosponsors 129

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 26, 2002 to Nov 13, 2002; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-IL	Lane Evans	Original	Jul 26, 2002
D-CA	Bob Filner		Sep 4, 2002
D-OK	Brad Carson		Sep 4, 2002
R-KY	Ed Whitfield		Sep 4, 2002
D-PA	Joseph M. Hoeffel		Sep 4, 2002
D-NY	Michael R. McNulty		Sep 4, 2002
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		Sep 4, 2002
D-MS	Ronnie Shows		Sep 4, 2002
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch		Sep 4, 2002
D-PA	Tim Holden		Sep 4, 2002
D-MN	Collin C. Peterson		Sep 9, 2002
D-FL	Corrine Brown		Sep 9, 2002
D-FL	Karen L. Thurman		Sep 9, 2002
D-TX	Martin Frost		Sep 9, 2002
D-TX	Max Sandlin		Sep 9, 2002
D-WA	Adam Smith		Sep 11, 2002
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		Sep 11, 2002
D-MA	Barney Frank		Sep 11, 2002
D-TX	Ciro D. Rodriguez		Sep 11, 2002
D-WA	Rick Larsen		Sep 11, 2002
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Sep 12, 2002
D-ME	John Elias Baldacci		Sep 12, 2002
R-PA	Todd Russell Platts		Sep 12, 2002
I-VT	Bernard Sanders		Sep 17, 2002
D-MA	Richard E. Neal		Sep 17, 2002
R-MS	Charles W. "Chip" Pickering		Sep 19, 2002
D-TX	Chet Edwards		Sep 19, 2002
D-PA	Paul E. Kanjorski		Sep 19, 2002
R-IL	Ray LaHood		Sep 19, 2002
R-CT	Rob Simmons		Sep 19, 2002
R-CO	Joel Hefley		Sep 23, 2002
D-CT	John B. Larson		Sep 23, 2002
R-FL	John L. Mica		Sep 23, 2002
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel		Sep 25, 2002
R-GA	Charles W. Norwood		Sep 25, 2002
R-SC	Henry E. Brown, Jr.		Sep 25, 2002
R-SD	John Thune		Sep 25, 2002
D-CA	Lynn C. Woolsey		Sep 25, 2002
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		Sep 25, 2002
R-OH	Steven C. LaTourette		Sep 25, 2002
R-NY	Sue W. Kelly		Sep 25, 2002
D-TN	Bart Gordon		Sep 26, 2002
D-OR	Darlene Hooley		Sep 26, 2002
R-NJ	Frank A. LoBiondo		Sep 26, 2002
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.		Sep 26, 2002
R-VA	J. Randy Forbes		Sep 26, 2002
D-IL	Jerry F. Costello		Sep 26, 2002
R-NV	Jim Gibbons		Sep 26, 2002
R-NJ	Jim Saxton		Sep 26, 2002
R-VA	Jo Ann Davis		Sep 26, 2002
R-SC	Lindsey Graham		Sep 26, 2002
D-WV	Nick J. Rahall II		Sep 26, 2002
R-NC	Walter B. Jones		Sep 26, 2002
D-CA	Barbara Lee		Oct 1, 2002
D-MI	Bart Stupak		Oct 1, 2002
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		Oct 1, 2002
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings		Oct 1, 2002
D-TX	Gene Green		Oct 1, 2002
R-FL	Jeff Miller		Oct 1, 2002
R-MN	Jim Ramstad		Oct 1, 2002
R-AR	John Boozman		Oct 1, 2002
D-CA	Juanita Millender-McDonald		Oct 1, 2002
D-IN	Julia Carson		Oct 1, 2002
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez		Oct 1, 2002
D-NC	Mike McIntyre		Oct 1, 2002
D-RI	Patrick J. Kennedy		Oct 1, 2002
D-NJ	Robert E. Andrews		Oct 1, 2002
D-NJ	Rush Holt		Oct 1, 2002
D-WI	Tammy Baldwin		Oct 1, 2002
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Oct 1, 2002
R-NY	Benjamin A. Gilman		Oct 2, 2002
R-AL	Bob Riley		Oct 2, 2002
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		Oct 2, 2002
D-IL	David D. Phelps		Oct 2, 2002
R-FL	Michael Bilirakis		Oct 2, 2002
R-PA	Phil English		Oct 2, 2002
R-GA	Saxby Chambliss		Oct 2, 2002
D-CT	James H. Maloney		Oct 3, 2002
R-KS	Jerry Moran		Oct 3, 2002
R-OH	Michael G. Oxley		Oct 3, 2002
R-IN	Dan Burton		Oct 7, 2002
D-MI	David E. Bonior		Oct 7, 2002
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne		Oct 7, 2002
R-VA	Edward L. Schrock		Oct 7, 2002
R-NY	Felix J. Grucci Jr.		Oct 7, 2002
R-PA	George W. Gekas		Oct 7, 2002
R-FL	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen		Oct 7, 2002
R-NY	Jack Quinn		Oct 7, 2002
D-SC	James E. Clyburn		Oct 7, 2002
D-MN	James L. Oberstar		Oct 7, 2002
R-SC	Joe Wilson		Oct 7, 2002
R-IN	Mark E. Souder		Oct 7, 2002
R-OH	Paul E. Gillmor		Oct 7, 2002
R-OH	Robert W. Ney		Oct 7, 2002
D-NY	Steve Israel		Oct 7, 2002
R-VA	Tom Davis		Oct 7, 2002
R-FL	Lincoln Diaz-Balart		Oct 8, 2002
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano		Oct 8, 2002
D-MN	Betty McCollum		Oct 9, 2002
R-PA	Melissa A. Hart		Oct 9, 2002
D-NJ	Robert Menendez		Oct 9, 2002
R-TX	Ron Paul		Oct 9, 2002
D-NV	Shelley Berkley		Oct 9, 2002
D-MN	Bill Luther		Oct 10, 2002
D-AZ	Ed Pastor		Oct 10, 2002
R-OK	John Sullivan		Oct 10, 2002
D-CA	Michael M. Honda		Oct 10, 2002
R-FL	Porter J. Goss		Oct 10, 2002
R-NC	Robin Hayes		Oct 10, 2002
D-TX	Silvestre Reyes		Oct 10, 2002
R-TN	William L. Jenkins		Oct 10, 2002
D-NY	Carolyn McCarthy		Oct 16, 2002
D-IL	Rod R. Blagojevich		Oct 16, 2002
D-OH	Ted Strickland		Oct 16, 2002
R-IL	Timothy V. Johnson		Oct 16, 2002
R-VA	Eric Cantor		Oct 17, 2002
D-IA	Leonard L. Boswell		Oct 21, 2002
R-NJ	Marge Roukema		Oct 21, 2002
R-NJ	Mike Ferguson		Oct 21, 2002
D-FL	Robert Wexler		Oct 21, 2002
R-WV	Shelley Moore Capito		Oct 21, 2002
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		Oct 24, 2002
R-CO	Bob Schaffer		Oct 28, 2002
D-TX	Jim Turner		Oct 31, 2002
D-TX	Ruben Hinojosa		Oct 31, 2002
R-CO	Thomas G. Tancredo		Oct 31, 2002
D-AL	Robert E. (Bud) Cramer Jr.		Nov 8, 2002
R-WI	Mark Green		Nov 12, 2002
R-OR	Greg Walden		Nov 13, 2002

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 26, 2002
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Aug 9, 2002

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

Aug 9, 2002Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jul 29, 2002Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1447-1448)
Jul 26, 2002Introduced in House
Jul 26, 2002Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

In the Congressional Record 1

Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.

Where	In the Record	Members	Date
Extensions	Debate and remarks E1447, E1449	Christopher H. Smith R-NJ, Lane Evans D-IL	Jul 29, 2002

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Congressional Budget Office cost estimates 2

Aug 27, 2002H.R. 5250, Veterans Health Care Funding Guarantee Act of 2002<p>Cost estimate for the bill as introduced on July 26, 2002</p>
Aug 27, 2002H.R. 5250, Veterans Health Care Funding Guarantee Act of 2002Cost estimate for the bill as introduced on July 26, 2002

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 2903	Veterans Health Care Funding Guarantee Act of 2002	Identical bill	Sep 5, 2002

Titles 2

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

Official Title as Introduced: To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for a guaranteed adequate level of funding for veterans health care.
Short Titles as Introduced: Veterans Health Care Funding Guarantee Act of 2002

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Jul 26, 2002Introduced in House

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