Veterans Serving Veterans Act of 2019
Latest action · Feb 22, 2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
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 29, 2019
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Veterans Serving Veterans Act of 2019
This bill updates the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) current recruiting database by requiring the VA to maintain a single searchable database to be known as the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs Recruitment Database.
With respect to vacant positions for critical jobs or mental health professionals, the database must list (1) the military occupational specialty or skill that corresponds to the position, and (2) each qualified member of the Armed Forces who may be recruited to fill the position before such qualified member has been discharged and released from active duty. Qualified members of the Armed Forces are those service members who (1) are being separated or recently separated from active duty, (2) elect to be listed in the database, and (3) have been determined by the VA to have a military occupational specialty.
The database must list the following for each qualified member of the Armed Forces: name, contact information, expected discharge date, and military occupational specialty.
The VA must implement direct hiring and appointment procedures for vacant database positions and may authorize relocation bonuses.
The bill also requires the VA to train and certify veterans who served as basic health care technicians in the Armed Forces to work as VA intermediate care technicians.
Cosponsors 14
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 29, 2019 to Oct 16, 2020; 4 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-AS | Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen | Original | Jan 29, 2019 |
| D-CA | Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr. | Original | Jan 29, 2019 |
| D-FL | Val Butler Demings | Original | Jan 29, 2019 |
| R-NC | Walter B. Jones | Original | Jan 29, 2019 |
| D-NJ | Andy Kim | Mar 8, 2019 | |
| R-LA | Clay Higgins | Mar 27, 2019 | |
| D-NH | Chris Pappas | Jun 4, 2019 | |
| R-FL | Ross Spano | Jun 4, 2019 | |
| R-CO | Scott R. Tipton | Jun 11, 2019 | |
| R-IL | Rodney Davis | Jun 27, 2019 | |
| D-SC | Joe Cunningham | Sep 13, 2019 | |
| R-MO | Ann Wagner | Oct 28, 2019 | |
| R-WI | Mike Gallagher | Feb 11, 2020 | |
| D-VA | Abigail Davis Spanberger | Oct 16, 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 Jan 29, 2019 |
| Economic Opportunity Subcommittee | Referred Feb 22, 2019 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 22, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
- Jan 29, 2019Introduced in House
- Jan 29, 2019Referred 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
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 165, no. 18, January 29, 2019, page H1284.
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. 116-30 | COMMITTEE ON VETERANS' AFFAIRS MEMBER DAY112 pages | Veterans' Affairs Committee | Sep 10, 2019 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 1124 | Veterans Serving Veterans Act of 2021 | Reintroduced Bill | Mar 22, 2021 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the VA Choice and Quality Employment Act to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a vacancy and recruitment database to facilitate the recruitment of certain members of the Armed Forces to satisfy the occupational needs of the Department of Veterans Affairs, to establish and implement a training and certification program for intermediate care technicians in that Department, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Veterans Serving Veterans Act of 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.
- Jan 29, 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.
