HRES 249
111th Congress
House
Armed Forces and National Security
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Veterans Affairs
Disability and paralysis
Health care costs and insurance
Veterans' medical care
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Department of Veterans Affairs should take full responsibility for financing the health care benefits earned by veterans with service-connected disabilities.
Introduced: March 17, 2009
Introduced by:
Lummis, Cynthia M.
Republican
· Wyoming
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Everywhere this bill has been
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In committee
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To President
Became law
Mar 17, 2009
Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Mar 17, 2009
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) should take full responsibility for financing the health-care benefits earned by veterans with service-connected disabilities; (2) the purchase of supplemental health insurance by a veteran should not be grounds for reducing the federal government's obligation to such veteran; and (3) the VA should not implement policies that discourage disabled veterans from purchasing supplemental health insurance coverage for themselves and their families.
What's happening now
Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Committees of jurisdiction
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