US Congress Senate Bill 681 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 28-2)
Status: Introduced on March 21 2017 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2017-05-17 - Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 115-299.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Deborah Sampson Act This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to carry out a three-year pilot program to assess the feasibility of peer-to-peer assistance for women veterans (including those who are separating or newly separated from the Armed Forces), with emphasis placed on women who suffered service-related sexual trauma or who are at risk of becoming homeless. Additionally, the VA shall: expand the women veterans call center to include a text messaging capability; establish a partnership with at least one nongovernmental organization to provide legal services to women veterans based upon their 10 highest unmet needs; retrofit VA medical facilities with fixtures, materials, and other outfitting measures to support the care of women veterans; ensure that each VA medical facility has at least one full-time or part-time women's health primary care provider; expand to 14 days VA post-delivery care services for women veterans who are receiving maternity care in a VA or VA-contracted facility; ensure that the women veteran manager program is supported at each VA medical center with a program manager and an ombudsman; collect, analyze, and publish data on each VA service or benefit program and disaggregate such data by sex and minority status; and publish an Internet website that serves as a centralized information source for women veterans' benefits and services. The bill makes funds available for: (1) primary care and emergency care clinicians' participation in the women veterans health care mini-residency program, and (2) organizations that focus on providing assistance to women veterans and their families. The bill: (1) provides for reintegration and readjustment services to veterans and family members in group retreat settings, and (2) expresses the sense of Congress that the VA's motto should be more inclusive.

Deborah Sampson Act

Sen. Jon Tester [D-MT]	Sen. John Boozman [R-AR]	Sen. Tim Kaine [D-VA]	Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]
Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]	Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Sen. Bill Nelson [D-FL]
Sen. Margaret Hassan [D-NH]	Sen. Brian Schatz [D-HI]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]
Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]	Sen. Chris Van Hollen [D-MD]	Sen. Jack Reed [D-RI]	Sen. Al Franken [D-MN]
Sen. Cory Booker [D-NJ]	Sen. Kamala Harris [D-CA]	Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]	Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]
Sen. Tammy Duckworth [D-IL]	Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto [D-NV]	Sen. Shelley Capito [R-WV]	Sen. Tina Smith [D-MN]
Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]	Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]	Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]	Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]
Sen. Gary Peters [D-MI]	Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-05-17	Senate	Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 115-299.
2017-03-21	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

HB2452 (Related) 2017-05-16 - Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/681/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s681/BILLS-115s681is.pdf