To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the productivity of the management of Department of Veterans Affairs health care, and for other purposes.
Latest action · Nov 16, 2018 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 807.
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.
- IntroducedJun 8, 2018
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to:
- track VA provider workloads considering the time, mental effort and judgment, technical skill, physical effort, and stress involved in delivering a procedure;
- require VA providers to attend training on clinical procedure coding; and
- establish standardized performance standards for each VA facility in order to evaluate clinical productivity at the provider and facility levels.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
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 Jun 8, 2018Markup Jul 12, 2018Reported Nov 16, 2018 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Jun 13, 2018Hearings Jun 13, 2018Markup Jun 27, 2018Reported Jun 27, 2018 |
Actions 10
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Nov 16, 2018Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 115-1034.
- Nov 16, 2018Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 807.
- Jul 12, 2018Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- Jul 12, 2018Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
- Jun 27, 2018Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
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
- Aug 2, 2018H.R. 6066, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the productivity of the management of Department of Veterans Affairs health care, and for other purposesAs ordered reported by the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on July 12, 2018
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 164, no. 95, June 8, 2018, page H5022.
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. 115-66 | LEGISLATIVE HEARING ON H.R. 2787; H.R. 3696; H.R. 5521; H.R. 5693; H.R. 5864; H.R. 5938; H.R. 5974; AND H.R. 606666 pages | Veterans' Affairs Committee | Jun 13, 2018 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 4242 | VA Care in the Community Act | Related bill | Mar 5, 2018 |
Titles 1
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the productivity of the management of Department of Veterans Affairs health care, and for other purposes.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security.
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Nov 16, 2018Reported in House
- Jun 8, 2018Introduced 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.
