HR 3651
115th Congress
House
Health
American Samoa
Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Health facilities and institutions
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Medical education
Medical research
Military medicine
U.S. territories and protectorates
Veterans' medical care
To require the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a feasibility study on renovating or replacing the Lyndon B. Johnson Tropical Medical Center with a new or updated facility.
Introduced: August 11, 2017
Introduced by:
Radewagen, Aumua Amata Coleman
Republican
· American Samoa
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Aug 18, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Aug 18, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
Aug 11, 2017
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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.
Aug 11, 2017
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
This bill directs the Government Accountability Office to evaluate and report on the feasibility and costs of renovating or replacing the Lyndon B. Johnson Tropical Medical Center, which is in American Samoa. The report must include specified information, including: (1) the cost to equip the facility to meet the care standards of the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Health and Human Services; (2) the feasibility of making the center a teaching hospital; and (3) the ability to include a tropical disease research center at the facility.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Committees of jurisdiction
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