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S. 899 115th Congress Senate

Veterans Providing Healthcare Transition Improvement Act

Official title: An Act to amend title 5, United States Code, to ensure that the requirements that new Federal employees who are veterans with service-connected disabilities ar… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: An Act to amend title 5, United States Code, to ensure that the requirements that new Federal employees who are veterans with service-connected disabilities are provided leave for purposes of undergoing medical treatment for such disabilities apply to certain employees of the Veterans Health Administration.

Introduced: April 7, 2017 Introduced by: Mazie K. Hirono Democratic · Hawaii See on congress.gov
Armed Forces and National Security Department of Veterans AffairsDisability and paralysisEmployee leaveGovernment employee pay, benefits, personnel management
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Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitationVeterans' medical care
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 Everywhere this bill has been 25 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Sep 7, 2018
Became Public Law No: 115-238.
Sep 7, 2018
Signed by President.
Aug 28, 2018
Presented to President.
Aug 23, 2018
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Aug 22, 2018
Senate agreed to the House amendments to the Senate bill by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5869)
Aug 22, 2018
Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate agreed to the House amendments to the Senate bill by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S5869)
Jul 17, 2018
Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendments to Senate bill.
Jul 16, 2018
The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
Jul 16, 2018
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Jul 16, 2018
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H6213-6214)
Jul 16, 2018
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H6213-6214)
Jul 16, 2018
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on S. 899.
Jul 16, 2018
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H6213-6215)
Jul 16, 2018
Mr. Walker moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Mar 21, 2018
Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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.
Mar 21, 2018
Received in the House.
Mar 21, 2018
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Mar 21, 2018
Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
Mar 20, 2018
Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S1848)
Mar 20, 2018
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S1848)
Mar 20, 2018
Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S1848)
Mar 20, 2018
Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S1848)
May 17, 2017
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 115-299.
Apr 7, 2017
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Apr 7, 2017
Introduced in Senate
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 Latest action September 7, 2018

Became Public Law No: 115-238.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Veterans Providing Healthcare Transition Improvement Act

This bill amends the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2015 to extend the policy entitling new federal employees who are veterans with a service-connected disability rated at 30% or more to a specified amount of leave for medical treatment for such disability to Veterans Health Administration physicians, dentists, podiatrists, chiropractors, optometrists, registered nurses, physician assistants, and expanded-function dental auxiliaries.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 2648 Veterans Transition Improvement Act
 Bill text 6 versions

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 1 Republican 1
D
Blumenthal, Richard
Connecticut · Jun 12, 2017
 R
Moran, Jerry
Kansas · Apr 7, 2017
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 899: Veterans Providing Healthcare Transition Improvement Act. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-899/
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"S. 899: Veterans Providing Healthcare Transition Improvement Act." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-899/.
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S. 899, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-899/.
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