Long-Term Care Veterans Choice Act
Latest action · Mar 12, 2020 Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
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.
- IntroducedMar 5, 2019
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Long-Term Care Veterans Choice Act
This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to enter into contracts to place certain disabled veterans in medical foster homes at the request of such veterans. Specifically, the bill concerns veterans with service-connected disabilities to whom the VA is required to provide nursing home care. Medical foster homes are homes designed to provide non-institutional, long-term, supportive care for veterans who are unable to live independently and prefer a family setting.
In any year, not more than a daily average of 900 veterans placed in a medical foster home may have their care covered.
Cosponsors 16
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 5, 2019 to Feb 28, 2020; 5 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-KY | Andy Barr | Original | Mar 5, 2019 |
| R-AS | Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen | Original | Mar 5, 2019 |
| D-CA | J. Luis Correa | Original | Mar 5, 2019 |
| R-PR | Jenniffer González-Colón | Original | Mar 5, 2019 |
| R-FL | W. Gregory Steube | Original | Mar 5, 2019 |
| D-CA | Julia Brownley | Mar 26, 2019 | |
| R-KY | Thomas Massie | Mar 27, 2019 | |
| R-MO | Jason Smith | Apr 8, 2019 | |
| R-OK | Tom Cole | May 1, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Zoe Lofgren | May 15, 2019 | |
| R-FL | Bill Posey | May 28, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Anna G. Eshoo | Jul 9, 2019 | |
| R-NY | Lee M. Zeldin | Sep 11, 2019 | |
| D-SC | Joe Cunningham | Sep 12, 2019 | |
| D-VA | Abigail Davis Spanberger | Jan 7, 2020 | |
| R-OK | Frank D. Lucas | Feb 28, 2020 |
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 Mar 5, 2019Markup Mar 12, 2020 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Mar 29, 2019Hearings Sep 11, 2019Discharged Mar 12, 2020 |
Actions 7
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 12, 2020Subcommittee on Health Discharged.
- Mar 12, 2020Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- Mar 12, 2020Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
- Sep 11, 2019Subcommittee Hearings Held.
- Mar 29, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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.
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Mar 24, 2020H.R. 1527, Long-Term Care Veterans Choice ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on March 12, 2020
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 165, no. 39, March 5, 2019, page H2369.
Printed hearings 3
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. 116-59 | THE SILVER TSUNAMI: IS VA READY?70 pages | Veterans' Affairs Committee | Mar 3, 2020 |
| Serial No. 116-31 | H.R. 3636; H.R. 2972; H.R. 3036; H.R. 2798; H.R. 2645; H.R. 2681; H.R. 3224; H.R. 2982; H.R. 2752; H.R. 2628; H.R. 2816; H.R. 1527; H.R. 1163; H.R. 3798; H.R. 3867; H.R. 4096; DRAFT BILL, TO ESTABLISH IN THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS THE OFFICE OF WOMEN'S HEALTH, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES95 pages | Veterans' Affairs Committee | Sep 11, 2019 |
| Serial No. 116-30 | COMMITTEE ON VETERANS' AFFAIRS MEMBER DAY112 pages | Veterans' Affairs Committee | Sep 10, 2019 |
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 1
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| R46848 | Commander John Scott Hannon Veterans Mental Health Care Improvement Act of 2019 (P.L. 116-171) and Veterans COMPACT Act of 2020 (P.L. 116-214) | Report | Jul 19, 2021 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 3408 | Long-Term Care Veterans Choice Act | Identical bill | Mar 5, 2020 |
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 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 Title(s) as Introduced
- Long-Term Care Veterans Choice 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.
- Mar 5, 2019Introduced 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.
