Veterans' Electronic Health Record Modernization Oversight Act of 2017
Latest action · May 22, 2018 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.
- IntroducedNov 3, 2017
- Passed HouseMay 21, 2018
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Veterans' Electronic Health Record Modernization Oversight Act of 2017
(Sec. 2) This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide Congress with:
- certain planning and implementation documents and contracts related to its Electronic Health Record Modernization program to implement an electronic health or medical record system to replace any or all of the Veterans Information Systems and Technology Architecture, the Computerized Patient Record System, the Joint Legacy Viewer, or the Enterprise Health Management Platform;
- quarterly updates of certain of such documents;
- copies of related contracts, orders, or agreements within 5 days; and
- notice within 10 days of delays of any milestone or deliverable exceeding 30 days, change requests exceeding $1 million, protest submissions, data losses, or breaches of patient privacy.
Cosponsors 7
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Nov 3, 2017 to Apr 24, 2018; 3 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NH | Ann M. Kuster | Original | Nov 3, 2017 |
| R-TN | David P. Roe | Original | Nov 3, 2017 |
| R-MI | Jack Bergman | Original | Nov 3, 2017 |
| R-WI | Glenn Grothman | Jan 9, 2018 | |
| R-NC | Mark Meadows | Mar 5, 2018 | |
| R-CO | Doug Lamborn | Mar 6, 2018 | |
| R-CO | Mike Coffman | Apr 24, 2018 |
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 Nov 3, 2017Markup May 8, 2018Reported May 21, 2018 |
| Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee | Referred Nov 3, 2017Hearings Mar 7, 2018Discharged May 8, 2018 | |
| Senate | Veterans' Affairs Committee | Referred May 22, 2018 |
Actions 15
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 22, 2018Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
- May 21, 2018Reported by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 115-691.
- May 21, 2018Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 534.
- May 21, 2018Mr. Dunn moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
- May 21, 2018Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4253-4254)
- May 21, 2018DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4245.
- May 21, 2018Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4253)
- May 21, 2018Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- May 8, 2018Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- May 8, 2018Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
- May 8, 2018Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Discharged.
- Mar 7, 2018Subcommittee Hearings Held.
- Nov 3, 2017Introduced in House
- Nov 3, 2017Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
- Nov 3, 2017Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Debate and remarks H4253, H4254Text printed H4253 | Neal P. Dunn R-FL, Sheila Jackson Lee D-TX, Timothy J. Walz D-MN | May 21, 2018 |
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
- May 10, 2018H.R. 4245, Veterans’ Electronic Health Record Modernization Oversight Act of 2017As ordered reported by the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on May 8, 2018
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 163, no. 179, November 3, 2017, page H8496.
Printed hearings 2
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. 115-58 | VA LOGISTICS MODERNIZATION: EXAMINING THE RTLS AND CATAMARAN PROJECTS32 pages | Veterans' Affairs Committee | May 8, 2018 |
| Serial No. 115-49 | LEGISLATIVE HEARING ON H.R. 3497, H.R. 4245, A DRAFT BILL REGARDING PURCHASE CARD MISUSE, AND A DRAFT BILL REGARDING THE MEDICAL SURGICAL PRIME VENDOR PROGRAM38 pages | Veterans' Affairs Committee | Mar 7, 2018 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 2063 | Veterans' Electronic Health Record Modernization Oversight Act of 2017 | Identical bill | Nov 2, 2017 |
Titles 4
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit to Congress certain documents relating to the Electronic Health Record Modernization Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Veterans' Electronic Health Record Modernization Oversight Act of 2017
- Short Titles as Reported to House
- Veterans' Electronic Health Record Modernization Oversight Act of 2017
- Short Titles as Passed House
- Veterans' Electronic Health Record Modernization Oversight Act of 2017
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security.
Text 4
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 22, 2018Referred in Senate
- May 21, 2018Engrossed in House
- May 21, 2018Reported in House
- Nov 3, 2017Introduced 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.
