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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2972 

To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to improve the communications 

of the Department of Veterans Affairs relating to services available 

for women veterans, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 23, 2019 

Mr. BRINDISI (for himself and Mrs. WALORSKI) introduced the following bill; 

which was referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 

A BILL 

To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to improve the 

communications of the Department of Veterans Affairs 

relating to services available for women veterans, and 

for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. EXPANSION OF CAPABILITIES OF WOMEN VET4 ERANS CALL CENTER TO INCLUDE TEXT MES5 SAGING. 

6 The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall expand the 

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1 partment of Veterans Affairs to include a text messaging 

2 capability. 

3 SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT FOR DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

4 AFFAIRS INTERNET WEBSITE TO PROVIDE IN5 FORMATION ON SERVICES AVAILABLE TO 

6 WOMEN VETERANS. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Veterans Affairs 

8 shall survey the internet websites and information re9 sources of the Department of Veterans Affairs in effect 

10 on the day before the date of the enactment of this Act 

11 and publish an internet website that serves as a central12 ized source for the provision to women veterans of infor13 mation about the benefits and services available to them 

14 under laws administered by the Secretary. 

15 (b) ELEMENTS.—The internet website published 

16 under subsection (a) shall provide to women veterans in17 formation regarding all of the services available in the dis18 trict in which that the veteran is seeking such services, 

19 including, with respect to each medical center and commu20 nity-based outpatient clinic in the applicable Veterans In21 tegrated Service Network— 

22 (1) the name and contact information of each 

23 women’s health coordinator; 

24 (2) a list of appropriate staff for other benefits 

25 available from the Veterans Benefits Administration, 


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1 the National Cemetery Administration, and such 

2 other entities as the Secretary considers appropriate; 

3 and 

4 (3) such other information as the Secretary 

5 considers appropriate. 

6 (c) UPDATED INFORMATION.—The Secretary shall 

7 ensure that the information described in subsection (b) 

8 that is published on the internet website required by sub9 section (a) is updated not less frequently than once every 

10 90 days. 

11 (d) OUTREACH.—In carrying out this section, the 

12 Secretary shall ensure that the outreach conducted under 

13 section 1720F(i) of title 38, United States Code, includes 

14 information regarding the internet website required by 

15 subsection (a). 

16 (e) DERIVATION OF FUNDS.—Amounts used by the 

17 Secretary to carry out this section shall be derived from 

18 amounts made available to the Secretary to publish inter19 net websites of the Department. 

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