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Washington, D.C. – Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed the following veterans’ measures:

H.R. 1016, as amended, would provide for two-year advanced appropriations for certain Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) health care accounts. The bill was previously amended during a House Committee on Veterans Affairs markup by Ranking Member Steve Buyer. Buyer’s amendment would include accounts for information technology and medical and prosthetic research in the advance appropriation.

H.R. 1211, as amended the Women Veterans Health Care Improvement Act, would require VA to study the barriers and services for women veterans, provide staff training to better treat sexual trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); establish a child care pilot program for certain veterans receiving care; and allow VA to provide care for a newborn of a woman veteran receiving VA maternity care.

H.R. 1172, as amended, introduced by Subcommittee Ranking Member John Boozman, requires VA to post a list of organizations that provide scholarships to veterans and their survivors on its website.

“I am pleased that this measure was approved,” Boozman said. “With the thousands of educational institutions that offer non-federal financial assistance directly or indirectly to veterans, it is important to have a centralized information source where a veteran can find links to the resources available.”

S. 407, the Veterans’ Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2009, would increase, effective as of December 1, 2009, the rates of compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities, and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans.  

For more news from House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Republicans, please go to:

http://republicans.veterans.house.gov/

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