US Congress House Bill 846 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on January 29 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-22 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Updates the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) current recruiting database by requiring the VA to maintain a single searchable database to be known as the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs Recruitment Database. With respect to vacant positions for critical jobs or mental health professionals, the database must list (1) the military occupational specialty or skill that corresponds to the position, and (2) each qualified member of the Armed Forces who may be recruited to fill the position before such qualified member has been discharged and released from active duty. Qualified members of the Armed Forces are those service members who (1) are being separated or recently separated from active duty, (2) elect to be listed in the database, and (3) have been determined by the VA to have a military occupational specialty. The database must list the following for each qualified member of the Armed Forces: name, contact information, expected discharge date, and military occupational specialty. The VA must implement direct hiring and appointment procedures for vacant database positions and may authorize relocation bonuses. The bill also requires the VA to train and certify veterans who served as basic health care technicians in the Armed Forces to work as VA intermediate care technicians.

Veterans Serving Veterans Act of 2019

Rep. Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon [R-PR]	Rep. Val Demings [D-FL]	Rep. Walter Jones [R-NC]	Rep. Amata Radewagen [R-AS]
Rep. Gil Cisneros [D-CA]	Rep. Andy Kim [D-NJ]	Rep. Clay Higgins [R-LA]	Rep. Christopher Pappas [D-NH]
Rep. Ross Spano [R-FL]	Rep. Scott Tipton [R-CO]	Rep. Rodney Davis [R-IL]	Rep. Joe Cunningham [D-SC]
Rep. Ann Wagner [R-MO]	Rep. Mike Gallagher [R-WI]	Rep. Abigail Spanberger [D-VA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-22	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
2019-01-29	House	Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
2019-01-29	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/846/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr846/BILLS-116hr846ih.pdf