Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Medical Staffing Recruitment and Retention Act

Bill: 114-s-1450
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2015-05-21
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Veterans Affairs

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Health personnel

Veterans' medical care
Latest action: action_date: 2015-09-16
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 114-212.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-05-21
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Medical Staffing Recruitment and Retention Act</strong></p> <p>This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to modify the hours of employment for a physician or physician assistant appointed in the VA on a full-time basis to more or less than 80 hours in a biweekly pay period provided the employee's total hours of employment in a calendar year do not exceed 2,080.</p>

tv_txt: II 114th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1450 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 21, 2015 Ms. Hirono introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs A BILL To amend title 38, United States Code, to allow the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to modify the hours of employment of physicians and physician assistants employed on a full-time basis by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Medical Staffing Recruitment and Retention Act . 2. Modification of hours of employment for physicians and physician assistants employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs Section 7423(a) of title 38, United States Code, is amended— (1) by striking (a) The hours and inserting (a)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the hours ; and (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (2) The Secretary may modify the hours of employment for a physician or physician assistant appointed in the Administration under any provision of this chapter on a full-time basis to be more than or less than 80 hours in a biweekly pay period if the total hours of employment for such employee in a calendar year does not exceed 2,080 hours. .