Long-Term Care Veterans Choice Act
Latest action · Mar 3, 2015 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
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.
- IntroducedJan 13, 2015
- Passed HouseMar 2, 2015
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Long-Term Care Veterans Choice Act
(Sec. 2) Authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), during the three-year period beginning on October 1, 2015, at the request of a veteran for whom the VA is required to provide nursing home care, to place such veteran in a medical foster home that meets VA standards. Requires such veteran to agree, as a condition of such placement, to accept VA home health services.
Limits the number of veterans placed in a medical foster home that may have their care covered at the expense of the United States to 900.
Amends the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 to reduce the aggregate amount of awards and bonuses that may be paid by the VA in each of FY2015-FY2018 to $300 million.
Recorded votes 1
Newest first. Open one to see how every member voted.
| Roll call | Question | Result | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House 107 | On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended | Passed405–0 | Mar 2, 2015 |
Cosponsors 2
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 20, 2015 to Mar 2, 2015.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-OK | Tom Cole | Feb 20, 2015 | |
| D-NJ | Donald Norcross | Mar 2, 2015 |
Committees 2
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 Jan 13, 2015Hearings Jan 27, 2015Markup Feb 12, 2015Reported Mar 2, 2015 |
| Senate | Veterans' Affairs Committee | Referred Mar 3, 2015 |
Actions 16
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 3, 2015Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
- Mar 2, 2015Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 114-35.
- Mar 2, 2015Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 24.
- Mar 2, 2015Mr. Miller (FL) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Mar 2, 2015Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1509-1510)
- Mar 2, 2015DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 294.
- Mar 2, 2015At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
- Mar 2, 2015Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H1510-1511)
- Mar 2, 2015Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 405 - 0 (Roll no. 107). (text: CR H1509)
- Mar 2, 2015Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Mar 2, 2015The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
- Feb 12, 2015Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- Feb 12, 2015Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Voice Vote.
- Jan 27, 2015Committee Hearings Held.
- Jan 13, 2015Introduced in House
- Jan 13, 2015Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
In the Congressional Record 2
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 E314 | Ander Crenshaw R-FL | Mar 6, 2015 |
| House | Debate and remarks H1509–H1511Text printed H1509Recorded votes H1510enact | Corrine Brown D-FL, Jeff Miller R-FL, Sheila Jackson Lee D-TX | Mar 2, 2015 |
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.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Mar 2, 2015H.R. 294, Long-Term Care Veterans Choice ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on February 12, 2015
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 161, no. 6, January 13, 2015, page H359.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 114-3 | LEGISLATIVE HEARING ON H.R. 189, H.R. 216, H.R. 245, H.R. 280, AND H.R. 29479 pages | Veterans' Affairs Committee | Jan 27, 2015 |
Titles 4
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to enter into contracts and agreements for the transfer of veterans to non-Department medical foster homes for certain veterans who are unable to live independently.
- Official Titles as Amended by House
- To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to enter into contracts and agreements for the placement of veterans in non-Department medical foster homes for certain veterans who are unable to live independently.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Long-Term Care Veterans Choice Act
- Short Titles as Passed House
- Long-Term Care Veterans Choice Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security.
Text 4
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 3, 2015Referred in Senate
- Mar 2, 2015Engrossed in House
- Mar 2, 2015Reported in House
- Jan 13, 2015Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
