Veterans Health Care Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6185
Sponsor: Rep. Harris, Katherine [R-FL-13]
Introduced: 2006-09-26 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative procedure
Afghanistan
Ambulatory care
Armed forces abroad
Authorization
Birth defects
Blind
Case management
Child health
Chronically ill
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Clinics
Coinsurance
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Community health services
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Department of Veterans Affairs
Disabled
Donation of organs, tissues, etc.
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Employee health benefits
Executive reorganization
Families
Family services
Federal advisory bodies
Federal employees
Federal officials
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Health
Health education
Health information systems
Health insurance
Homeless
Hospital care
Hospital rates
Housing and Community Development
Housing subsidies
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Infants
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Job hunting
Kentucky
Labor and Employment
Land transfers
Louisiana
Marriage counseling
Medical economics
Medical fees
Medical records
Mental health services
Mental illness
Middle East and North Africa
Military medicine
Military occupation
Military operations
Mississippi
National Guard
Nurses
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Prescription pricing
Privatization
Psychologists
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Rehabilitation of the disabled
Right of privacy
Salaries
Science, Technology, Communications
South Asia
Telemedicine
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' employment
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care
Vietnam veterans
Vocational guidance
Women
Women veterans

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: 
Veterans Health Care Act of 2006 - Amends federal veterans' benefits provisions to, among other things: (1) authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, in certain cases, to furnish up to 14 days of postnatal care to the newborn child of a woman veteran; (2) revise third-party payer provisions relating to health care furnished through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for spina bifida and associated disabilities in the children of Vietnam veterans; (3) make permanent the homeless veterans' comprehensive services program; (4) include as authorized VA mental health service providers marriage and family therapists and professional mental health counselors; (5) provide a pay level adjustment for the Chief Nursing Officer; (6) authorize VA vs. private contractor cost comparison studies with respect to certain commercial or industrial products; (7) direct the Secretary to expand certain veterans' mental health clinical services and education programs; (8) provide an exception to the confidentiality of VA medical records in the case of possible organ donations; (9) direct the Secretary to expand the National Guard outreach program and telehealth services; (10) allow limited veterans' travel reimbursement in connection with treatment or care for a non-service-connected disability; (11) establish VA blind rehabilitation outpatient specialists; (12) provide priority health care and services for certain veterans affected by Hurricane Katrina; (13) authorize the Secretary to reimburse veterans for certain outstanding emergency treatment expenses for which they remain personally liable; and (14) authorize the Secretary to convey to the city of Fort Thomas, Kentucky, certain property located in the Tower Park area of Fort Thomas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2006-10-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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.
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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.
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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.
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: Introduced in House