Title: HEALTH Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Helping Expand and Launch Transitional Health for Women Veterans Act or the HEALTH Act
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to continue through at least FY2020 and report on the Women's Health Transition Training pilot program. Among other elements, the report should include the number of female participants by military department, the number of courses held under the program, and the locations where the courses were held.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3182 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3182

 To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out the Women's 
 Health Transition Training pilot program through at least fiscal year 
                     2020, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 13, 2020

Mr. Sullivan (for himself and Mr. Blumenthal) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' 
                                Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out the Women's 
 Health Transition Training pilot program through at least fiscal year 
                     2020, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Helping Expand and Launch 
Transitional Health for Women Veterans Act'' or ``HEALTH Act''.

SEC. 2. CONTINUATION OF WOMEN'S HEALTH TRANSITION TRAINING PILOT 
              PROGRAM OF DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.

    (a) Duration.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall carry out 
the Women's Health Transition Training pilot program of the Department 
of Veterans Affairs (in this section referred to as the ``pilot 
program'') until at least September 30, 2020.
    (b) Report.--Not later than September 30, 2020, the Secretary of 
Defense and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall jointly submit to 
the appropriate congressional committees a report on the pilot program 
that includes the following:
            (1) The number of women members of the Armed Forces, 
        disaggregated by military department (with respect to the 
        Department of the Navy, disaggregated by the Navy and Marine 
        Corps), who participated in the pilot program.
            (2) The number of courses held under the pilot program.
            (3) The locations at which such courses were held, the 
        number of seats available for such courses, and the number of 
        participants at each such location.
            (4) With respect to the number of members of the Armed 
        Forces who participated in the pilot program as specified under 
        paragraph (1)--
                    (A) the number who enrolled in the health care 
                system of the Department of Veterans Affairs under 
                section 1705(a) of title 38, United States Code; and
                    (B) the number who attended at least one health 
                care appointment at a medical facility of the 
                Department of Veterans Affairs.
            (5) Data relating to--
                    (A) satisfaction with courses held under the pilot 
                program;
                    (B) improved awareness of health care services 
                administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; and
                    (C) any other available statistics regarding the 
                pilot program.
            (6) A discussion of regulatory, legal, or resource barriers 
        to--
                    (A) making the pilot program permanent to enable 
                access to services provided under the pilot program by 
                a greater number of women members of the Armed Forces 
                at locations throughout the United States;
                    (B) offering the pilot program online for women 
                members of the Armed Forces who are unable to attend 
                courses held under the pilot program in person; and
                    (C) the feasability of automatically enrolling 
                pilot program participants in the health care system of 
                the Department of Veterans Affairs under section 
                1705(a) of title 38, United States Code.
    (c) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.--In this section, 
the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
            (1) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
        Veterans' Affairs of the Senate; and
            (2) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
        Veterans' Affairs of the House of Representatives.
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