HR 2870
114th Congress
House
International Affairs
Congressional oversight
Crime victims
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of State
Executive Office of the President
Executive agency funding and structure
Foreign aid and international relief
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Legal fees and court costs
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Mental health
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
War crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity
Torture Victims Relief Reauthorization Act of 2015
Introduced: June 24, 2015
Introduced by:
Smith, Christopher H.
Republican
· New Jersey
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jun 26, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jun 24, 2015
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.
Jun 24, 2015
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Torture Victims Relief Reauthorization Act of 2015
Amends the Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998 to authorize FY2016-FY2017 appropriations to:
- the Department of Health and Human Services for grants to domestic treatment centers for the costs of services in the rehabilitation of victims of torture (including treatment of both physical and psychological effects), social and legal services, and research and training of health care providers outside of treatment centers or programs; and
- the President for grants to foreign treatment centers and programs for activities designed to treat victims for the physical and psychological effects of torture.
Directs the U.S. Agency for International Development to support indigenous foreign treatment centers and programs for torture victims in order to increase their capacities to train other local health care providers.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Committees of jurisdiction
3
Cosponsors
1