US Congress House Bill 4154 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: Introduced on August 2 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-08-22 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to seek to contact covered veterans to encourage them to receive comprehensive physical, mental health, eye, and audiological examinations. A covered veteran is a veteran who is enrolled in the VA health care system and has not received health care furnished or paid for by the VA in the past two years. Under the bill, if a covered veteran elects to receive more than one of the comprehensive examinations at a VA health care facility, the VA shall seek to furnish all such examinations on the same day. A covered veteran may also receive an examination from another specified health care provider. The bill provides that the VA may pay for a rural covered veteran to travel to a health care facility to receive a comprehensive examination. The VA shall seek to enter into agreements with non-profit organizations to provide shuttle service to rural covered veterans for such examinations.

Leave no Veteran Behind Act

Rep. Suzanne Lee [D-NV]	Rep. Steve Watkins [R-KS]	Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick [R-PA]	Rep. Lee Zeldin [R-NY]
Rep. Jeff Van Drew [R-NJ]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-08-22	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2019-08-02	House	Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
2019-08-02	House	Introduced in House

HB8247 (Related) 2020-12-05 - Became Public Law No: 116-214. (TXT | PDF)

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/4154/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr4154/BILLS-116hr4154ih.pdf