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HR 2965 112th Congress House Armed Forces and National Security Department of Veterans Affairs Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management Health care quality Health promotion and preventive care Infectious and parasitic diseases Medical ethics Veterans' medical care

To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for penalties for employees of the Veterans Health Administration who intentionally fail to follow infection control practices.

Introduced: September 19, 2011 Introduced by: Turner, Michael R. Republican · Ohio See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 4 steps
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Sep 23, 2011
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Sep 23, 2011
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Sep 19, 2011
Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Sep 19, 2011
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Requires any employee of the Veterans Health Administration who, while working in a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical facility, intentionally fails to follow infection control practices to be fined in accordance with the federal criminal code or imprisoned for up to one year, or both.

Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish infection control practices.

What's happening now September 23, 2011

Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

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