HR 1377 · 116th Congress 2019–2021, ended

Mark Takai Atomic Veterans Healthcare Parity Act

Introduced Feb 26, 2019 Originated House Sponsor Grace Meng D-NY

Fact sheet

Latest action · Mar 14, 2019 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.

  1. IntroducedFeb 26, 2019
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. 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.

Under a presumption of service-connection, specific diseases diagnosed in certain veterans are presumed to have been caused by the circumstances of their military service. Health care benefits and disability compensation may then be awarded.

Cosponsors 145

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 26, 2019 to Mar 2, 2020, with 83 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-NYAdriano EspaillatOriginalFeb 26, 2019
D-CAAlan S. LowenthalOriginalFeb 26, 2019
D-NJAlbio SiresOriginalFeb 26, 2019
D-FLAlcee L. HastingsOriginalFeb 26, 2019
R-ASAumua Amata Coleman RadewagenOriginalFeb 26, 2019
D-NMBen Ray LujánOriginalFeb 26, 2019
D-MNBetty McCollumOriginalFeb 26, 2019
D-ILBill FosterOriginalFeb 26, 2019
D-ILBobby L. RushOriginalFeb 26, 2019
D-NJBonnie Watson ColemanOriginalFeb 26, 2019
R-ALBradley ByrneOriginalFeb 26, 2019
D-ILBradley Scott SchneiderOriginalFeb 26, 2019
D-MIBrenda L. LawrenceOriginalFeb 26, 2019
D-NYBrian HigginsOriginalFeb 26, 2019
R-PABrian K. FitzpatrickOriginalFeb 26, 2019
Show all 145 cosponsors

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Mar 14, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
  2. Mar 4, 2019Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E235)
  3. Feb 26, 2019Introduced in House
  4. Feb 26, 2019Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Related bills 1

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

BillTitleRelationshipLatest action
S 555Mark Takai Atomic Veterans Healthcare Parity Act of 2019Related billFeb 26, 2019

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Feb 26, 2019Introduced in House

Support LegiList

This page is free, carries no paywall, and is built and maintained by one person. If the record here is useful to you, a few dollars keeps it going.

$1 $5 $10

Processed by Stripe in a separate window. LegiList never sees card details.

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.