Veterans' Health Care and Equitable Access Act of 2005
Latest action · Apr 28, 2005 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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.
- IntroducedApr 28, 2005
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Veterans' Health Care and Equitable Access Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make specified funds available to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (Secretary) for Veterans Health Administration FY 2007 programs.
Prohibits fund use for: (1) construction, acquisition, or alteration of veterans' medical facilities (other than for certain repairs); or (2) grants for the construction of State home facilities for veterans' domiciliary, nursing home, and hospital care.
Directs the Secretary to conduct a pilot program to improve health care access for rural veterans.
Provides: (1) for travel reimbursement for veterans receiving treatment in VA facilities at the same as for Federal employees on official business; (2) that the disability rating for a veteran who loses a limb as a result of a service-connected injury shall be at least 50 percent; and (3) that if a member of the Armed Forces, National Guard, or Reserve dies while on active service or active status such individual's child enrolled in any Federal child care program shall continue receiving such services for 24 months after such death.
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to direct the Secretary and the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a Medicare subvention project under which HHS shall reimburse the VA for Medicare health care services furnished to Medicare-eligible veterans in VA facilities.
Cosponsors 5
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 6, 2005 to Jul 27, 2005.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-FL | Mel Martinez | Jun 6, 2005 | |
| D-SD | Tim Johnson | Jun 8, 2005 | |
| D-IA | Tom Harkin | Jun 27, 2005 | |
| D-AR | Blanche L. Lincoln | Jul 21, 2005 | |
| R-ME | Olympia J. Snowe | Jul 27, 2005 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 28, 2005Introduced in Senate
- Apr 28, 2005Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- Apr 28, 2005Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6400-6401)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security.
- Access to health care
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Armed forces reserves
- Chronically ill
- Collection of accounts
- Commerce
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Cost accounting
- Day care
- Disabled
- Drugs
- Economics and Public Finance
- Families
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Government trust funds
- Governmental investigations
- Health
- Health insurance
- Hospital rates
- Housing and Community Development
- Insurance companies
- Medicare
- Military dependents
- Military medicine
- National Guard
- Rural health
- Social Welfare
- Veterans' disability compensation
- Veterans' hospitals
- Veterans' medical care
- War casualties
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