Long-Term Care Veterans Choice Act
- Last Action
- 3/12/2020
Actions
- 2020-03-12Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
- 2020-03-12Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- 2020-03-12Subcommittee on Health Discharged.
- 2019-09-11Subcommittee Hearings Held.
- 2019-03-29Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- 2019-03-05Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
- 2019-03-05Introduced in House
- 2019-03-05Introduced in House
CRS Summary
As of 2019-03-05 (00)
Long-Term Care Veterans Choice Act
This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to enter into contracts to place certain disabled veterans in medical foster homes at the request of such veterans. Specifically, the bill concerns veterans with service-connected disabilities to whom the VA is required to provide nursing home care. Medical foster homes are homes designed to provide non-institutional, long-term, supportive care for veterans who are unable to live independently and prefer a family setting.
In any year, not more than a daily average of 900 veterans placed in a medical foster home may have their care covered.
Cosponsors (16)
- Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon (R-PR)
- Aumua Amata Radewagen (R-AS)
- W. Steube (R-FL)
- Andy Barr (R-KY)
- J. Correa (D-CA)
- Julia Brownley (D-CA)
- Thomas Massie (R-KY)
- Jason Smith (R-MO)
- Tom Cole (R-OK)
- ZOE LOFGREN (D-CA)
- Bill Posey (R-FL)
- ANNA ESHOO (D-CA)
- Lee Zeldin (R-NY)
- Joe Cunningham (D-SC)
- Abigail Spanberger (D-VA)
- FRANK LUCAS (R-OK)
Subjects
- Home and outpatient care
- Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
- Public contracts and procurement
- Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
- Veterans' medical care
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