HR 632 · 115th Congress 2017–2019, ended

Mark Takai Atomic Veterans Healthcare Parity Act

Introduced Jan 24, 2017 Originated House Sponsor Grace Meng D-NY

Latest action · Feb 3, 2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial 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 24, 2017
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Mark Takai Atomic Veterans Healthcare Parity Act

This bill includes veterans who participated in the cleanup of Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands between January 1, 1977, and December 31, 1980, as radiation exposed veterans for purposes of the Department of Veterans Affairs presumption of service-connection for specified cancers.

Cosponsors 238

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 24, 2017 to Oct 2, 2018; 12 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-MN	Betty McCollum	Original	Jan 24, 2017
R-ME	Bruce Poliquin	Original	Jan 24, 2017
D-MI	Debbie Dingell	Original	Jan 24, 2017
D-WA	Denny Heck	Original	Jan 24, 2017
R-AK	Don Young	Original	Jan 24, 2017
D-CO	Ed Perlmutter	Original	Jan 24, 2017
R-NJ	Frank A. LoBiondo	Original	Jan 24, 2017
D-CA	Jackie Speier	Original	Jan 24, 2017
D-RI	James R. Langevin	Original	Jan 24, 2017
R-SC	Joe Wilson	Original	Jan 24, 2017
D-GU	Madeleine Z. Bordallo	Original	Jan 24, 2017
D-HI	Tulsi Gabbard	Original	Jan 24, 2017
R-AL	Bradley Byrne		Jan 30, 2017
D-ME	Chellie Pingree		Jan 30, 2017
D-NV	Dina Titus		Jan 30, 2017
D-CT	Joe Courtney		Jan 30, 2017
D-NY	Kathleen M. Rice		Jan 30, 2017
D-IL	Mike Quigley		Jan 30, 2017
R-NY	Peter T. King		Jan 30, 2017
D-OH	Tim Ryan		Jan 30, 2017
D-MN	Timothy J. Walz		Jan 30, 2017
R-NC	Walter B. Jones		Jan 30, 2017
D-TX	Beto O'Rourke		Jan 31, 2017
R-UT	Chris Stewart		Jan 31, 2017
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth		Jan 31, 2017
D-CA	Juan Vargas		Jan 31, 2017
R-AL	Martha Roby		Jan 31, 2017
R-UT	Mia B. Love		Jan 31, 2017
D-HI	Colleen Hanabusa		Feb 1, 2017
R-CA	David G. Valadao		Feb 1, 2017
R-KY	Thomas Massie		Feb 1, 2017
R-MI	Jack Bergman		Feb 6, 2017
D-MN	Keith Ellison		Feb 6, 2017
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur		Feb 6, 2017
D-CA	Mike Thompson		Feb 6, 2017
D-VT	Peter Welch		Feb 6, 2017
D-CA	Alan S. Lowenthal		Feb 13, 2017
D-CA	Eric Swalwell		Feb 13, 2017
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Feb 13, 2017
D-CA	Julia Brownley		Feb 13, 2017
R-NJ	Thomas MacArthur		Feb 13, 2017
R-FL	Thomas J. Rooney		Feb 14, 2017
D-OR	Kurt Schrader		Feb 16, 2017
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez		Feb 16, 2017
D-MI	Sander M. Levin		Feb 16, 2017
R-CA	Stephen Knight		Feb 16, 2017
D-WA	Derek Kilmer		Feb 27, 2017
D-MD	Jamie Raskin		Feb 27, 2017
D-CA	Mark Takano		Feb 27, 2017
R-IL	Rodney Davis		Feb 27, 2017
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez		Feb 28, 2017
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		Feb 28, 2017
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		Mar 8, 2017
D-MI	Brenda L. Lawrence		Mar 8, 2017
R-NY	Daniel M. Donovan, Jr.		Mar 8, 2017
D-IA	David Loebsack		Mar 8, 2017
D-MP	Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan		Mar 8, 2017
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter		Mar 8, 2017
D-TX	Marc A. Veasey		Mar 8, 2017
D-CA	Mark DeSaulnier		Mar 8, 2017
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva		Mar 8, 2017
D-WA	Rick Larsen		Mar 8, 2017
D-CA	Scott H. Peters		Mar 8, 2017
D-OR	Suzanne Bonamici		Mar 8, 2017
D-CA	Tony Cárdenas		Mar 8, 2017
D-CA	Barbara Lee		Mar 13, 2017
D-CA	John Garamendi		Mar 13, 2017
R-CA	Edward R. Royce		Mar 15, 2017
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		Mar 15, 2017
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks		Mar 15, 2017
D-PA	Matt Cartwright		Mar 15, 2017
D-CA	Judy Chu		Mar 20, 2017
D-CA	Norma J. Torres		Mar 20, 2017
D-CA	Pete Aguilar		Mar 20, 2017
D-MA	Seth Moulton		Mar 22, 2017
R-OH	David P. Joyce		Apr 26, 2017
R-NY	Elise M. Stefanik		Apr 26, 2017
D-NY	Jose E. Serrano		Apr 26, 2017
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez		Apr 26, 2017
D-MN	Richard M. Nolan		Apr 26, 2017
D-NH	Carol Shea-Porter		Apr 27, 2017
D-NV	Ruben J. Kihuen		May 8, 2017
D-WA	Adam Smith		May 11, 2017
R-AS	Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen		May 11, 2017
D-PA	Dwight Evans		May 16, 2017
D-MN	Collin C. Peterson		May 17, 2017
R-FL	John H. Rutherford		May 25, 2017
D-TX	Al Green		Jun 6, 2017
D-MI	Daniel T. Kildee		Jun 6, 2017
R-UT	Rob Bishop		Jun 7, 2017
R-WI	Mike Gallagher		Jun 13, 2017
D-CO	Jared Polis		Jun 20, 2017
R-FL	Brian J. Mast		Jun 21, 2017
R-FL	Carlos Curbelo		Jun 21, 2017
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings		Jun 21, 2017
D-MI	John Conyers, Jr.		Jun 21, 2017
D-DE	Lisa Blunt Rochester		Jun 21, 2017
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		Jun 21, 2017
D-TN	Steve Cohen		Jun 21, 2017
D-NM	Michelle Lujan Grisham		Jun 22, 2017
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		Jun 27, 2017
D-NY	Joseph Crowley		Jun 27, 2017
D-CA	Ted Lieu		Jul 12, 2017
R-GA	Earl L. "Buddy" Carter		Jul 17, 2017
D-PA	Robert A. Brady		Jul 18, 2017
R-TX	Kenny Marchant		Jul 24, 2017
R-CO	Mike Coffman		Jul 24, 2017
D-VA	Donald S. Beyer, Jr.		Jul 27, 2017
D-IL	Robin L. Kelly		Jul 27, 2017
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay		Jul 27, 2017
D-OH	Joyce Beatty		Jul 28, 2017
D-AZ	Ruben Gallego		Jul 28, 2017
D-WI	Mark Pocan		Sep 6, 2017
R-PA	Ryan A. Costello		Sep 6, 2017
D-NJ	Albio Sires		Sep 12, 2017
R-IL	Peter J. Roskam		Oct 4, 2017
D-NH	Ann M. Kuster		Oct 19, 2017
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel		Nov 2, 2017
R-NM	Stevan Pearce		Nov 7, 2017
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		Nov 21, 2017
R-ND	Kevin Cramer		Nov 28, 2017
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne, Jr.		Nov 30, 2017
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui		Nov 30, 2017
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		Dec 1, 2017
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler		Dec 1, 2017
D-CA	Jimmy Gomez		Dec 1, 2017
D-VA	A. Donald McEachin		Dec 4, 2017
D-NY	Adriano Espaillat		Dec 4, 2017
D-NJ	Bonnie Watson Coleman		Dec 4, 2017
D-NY	Brian Higgins		Dec 4, 2017
D-FL	Charlie Crist		Dec 4, 2017
D-IL	Cheri Bustos		Dec 4, 2017
D-FL	Darren Soto		Dec 4, 2017
R-MI	David A. Trott		Dec 4, 2017
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz		Dec 4, 2017
D-FL	Frederica S. Wilson		Dec 4, 2017
D-NY	Hakeem S. Jeffries		Dec 4, 2017
D-NV	Jacky Rosen		Dec 4, 2017
D-CA	Jimmy Panetta		Dec 4, 2017
D-TX	Joaquin Castro		Dec 4, 2017
D-MA	Katherine M. Clark		Dec 4, 2017
D-FL	Lois Frankel		Dec 4, 2017
D-NY	Paul Tonko		Dec 4, 2017
D-WA	Pramila Jayapal		Dec 4, 2017
D-CA	Salud O. Carbajal		Dec 4, 2017
D-FL	Stephanie N. Murphy		Dec 4, 2017
D-AL	Terri A. Sewell		Dec 4, 2017
D-FL	Theodore E. Deutch		Dec 4, 2017
D-NY	Thomas R. Suozzi		Dec 4, 2017
D-NY	Yvette D. Clarke		Dec 4, 2017
D-CA	Ami Bera		Dec 5, 2017
D-IL	Bill Foster		Dec 5, 2017
D-IL	Danny K. Davis		Dec 5, 2017
D-CT	Elizabeth H. Esty		Dec 5, 2017
R-FL	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen		Dec 5, 2017
R-NY	John J. Faso		Dec 5, 2017
D-CA	Ro Khanna		Dec 5, 2017
D-RI	David N. Cicilline		Dec 6, 2017
R-CA	Doug LaMalfa		Dec 6, 2017
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		Dec 6, 2017
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.		Dec 6, 2017
D-NC	G. K. Butterfield		Dec 6, 2017
R-IN	Jackie Walorski		Dec 6, 2017
R-NY	John Katko		Dec 6, 2017
D-FL	Kathy Castor		Dec 6, 2017
D-CA	Nanette Diaz Barragán		Dec 6, 2017
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott		Dec 6, 2017
D-NY	Sean Patrick Maloney		Dec 6, 2017
D-FL	Al Lawson, Jr.		Dec 7, 2017
D-MD	Anthony G. Brown		Dec 7, 2017
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger		Dec 7, 2017
D-MO	Emanuel Cleaver		Dec 7, 2017
D-WI	Gwen Moore		Dec 7, 2017
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.		Dec 7, 2017
D-CT	James A. Himes		Dec 7, 2017
D-CA	Jared Huffman		Dec 7, 2017
D-CA	Jerry McNerney		Dec 7, 2017
D-IL	Raja Krishnamoorthi		Dec 7, 2017
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch		Dec 7, 2017
R-NY	Tom Reed		Dec 7, 2017
D-TX	Vicente Gonzalez		Dec 7, 2017
D-NC	Alma S. Adams		Dec 11, 2017
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján		Dec 11, 2017
D-MS	Bennie G. Thompson		Dec 11, 2017
D-IL	Bradley Scott Schneider		Dec 11, 2017
D-LA	Cedric L. Richmond		Dec 11, 2017
D-GA	David Scott		Dec 11, 2017
D-NJ	Donald Norcross		Dec 11, 2017
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		Dec 11, 2017
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Dec 11, 2017
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly		Dec 11, 2017
D-TX	Henry Cuellar		Dec 11, 2017
D-CA	J. Luis Correa		Dec 11, 2017
D-CT	John B. Larson		Dec 11, 2017
D-GA	John Lewis		Dec 11, 2017
I-AZ	Kyrsten Sinema		Dec 11, 2017
R-TX	Louie Gohmert		Dec 11, 2017
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano		Dec 11, 2017
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		Dec 11, 2017
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		Dec 11, 2017
D-CA	Susan A. Davis		Dec 11, 2017
R-FL	Ted S. Yoho		Dec 11, 2017
D-MA	William R. Keating		Dec 11, 2017
R-OH	Bob Gibbs		Dec 12, 2017
D-NC	David E. Price		Dec 12, 2017
D-MD	John P. Sarbanes		Dec 12, 2017
D-MA	Joseph P. Kennedy III		Dec 12, 2017
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Dec 12, 2017
D-NY	Nita M. Lowey		Dec 12, 2017
D-MA	Richard E. Neal		Dec 12, 2017
D-WI	Ron Kind		Dec 12, 2017
D-VI	Stacey E. Plaskett		Dec 12, 2017
D-FL	Val Butler Demings		Dec 12, 2017
D-IN	André Carson		Dec 13, 2017
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		Dec 13, 2017
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush		Dec 13, 2017
D-CA	Brad Sherman		Dec 13, 2017
D-PA	Brendan F. Boyle		Dec 13, 2017
D-IL	Daniel Lipinski		Dec 13, 2017
D-CO	Diana DeGette		Dec 13, 2017
D-TX	Gene Green		Dec 13, 2017
D-MD	John K. Delaney		Dec 13, 2017
D-CA	Karen Bass		Dec 13, 2017
R-NY	Lee M. Zeldin		Dec 13, 2017
D-OH	Marcia L. Fudge		Dec 13, 2017
D-WA	Suzan K. DelBene		Dec 13, 2017
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		Dec 14, 2017
D-NJ	Josh Gottheimer		Dec 14, 2017
D-CA	Raul Ruiz		Dec 14, 2017
D-CA	Jim Costa		Dec 21, 2017
D-MD	Steny H. Hoyer		Dec 21, 2017
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Jan 12, 2018
D-IN	Peter J. Visclosky		Jun 19, 2018
R-OH	Steve Stivers		Jun 25, 2018
R-MD	Andy Harris		Jul 17, 2018
R-PA	Mike Kelly		Jul 17, 2018
R-CA	Tom McClintock		Sep 25, 2018
R-TX	Michael C. Burgess		Oct 2, 2018

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 Jan 24, 2017
	Health Subcommittee	Discharged Feb 3, 2017Referred Feb 3, 2017
	Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Subcommittee	Referred Feb 3, 2017

Actions 5

Everything that happened, newest first.

Feb 3, 2017Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb 3, 2017Subcommittee on Health Discharged.
Feb 3, 2017Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
Jan 24, 2017Introduced in House
Jan 24, 2017Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

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.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 163, no. 13, January 24, 2017, page H687.

Related bills 4

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

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 283	Mark Takai Atomic Veterans Healthcare Parity Act	Identical bill	Feb 2, 2017
HR 1377	Mark Takai Atomic Veterans Healthcare Parity Act	Reintroduced Bill	Mar 14, 2019
S 2821	Mark Takai Atomic Veterans Healthcare Parity Act	Related bill	May 10, 2018
HR 5980	Mark Takai Atomic Veterans Healthcare Parity Act	Reintroduction of	Sep 9, 2016

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 the treatment of veterans who participated in the cleanup of Enewetak Atoll as radiation exposed veterans for purposes of the presumption of service-connection of certain disabilities by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
Short Titles as Introduced: Mark Takai Atomic Veterans Healthcare Parity Act

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Jan 24, 2017Introduced in House

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