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H.R. 1356: Women Veterans Access to Quality Care Act of 2015

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H.R. 1356: Women Veterans Access to Quality Care Act of 2015

114th Congress · introduced 2015-03-13 · Armed Forces and National Security · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2015-03-13 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Coffman, Mike [R-CO-6] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Women Veterans Access to Quality Care Act of 2015

Plain summary

Women Veterans Access to Quality Care Act of 2015 Directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to: (1) establish standards to ensure that all VA medical facilities have the structural characteristics necessary to adequately meet the gender-specific health care needs of veterans at such facilities, including privacy, safety, and dignity; (2) integrate such standards into its prioritization methodology with respect to requests for funding major medical facility projects and major medical facility leases; and (3) report on such standards, including regarding the facilities that fail to meet such standards and the costs of projects and leases required to meet them. Requires the VA to: (1) use health outcomes for women veterans furnished health care by the the VA in evaluating the performance of VA medical center directors, (2) publish on its website information on such performance and on health outcomes for women veterans for each VA medical facility, (3) ensure that every VA medical center has a full-time obstetrician or gynecologist, and (4) carry out a pilot program to increase the number of residency program positions and graduate medical education positions for obstetricians and gynecologists at VA medical facilities in not less than three Veterans Integrated Service Networks. Directs the VA to develop procedures to share information that includes military service and separation data, personal email addresses and telephone numbers, and mailing addresses of veterans with state veterans agencies in electronic format as a means of facilitating the furnishing of assistance and benefits to such veterans. Allows a veteran to elect to prevent their information from being shared. Directs the Government Accountability Office to carry out an examination of whether VA medical centers are able to meet the health care needs of women veterans.

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

Women Veterans Access to Quality Care Act of 2015

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Coffman, Mike [R-CO-6] · 104 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

James P. McGovern (D-MA), Suzan K. DelBene (D-WA), Alma S. Adams (D-NC), Judy Chu (D-CA), Doris O. Matsui (D-CA), Dina Titus (D-NV), Ryan K. Zinke (R-MT), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Joe Wilson (R-SC), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Mike Thompson (D-CA), Marc A. Veasey (D-TX), Austin Scott (R-GA), Peter Welch (D-VT), Andy Barr (R-KY), Scott H. Peters (D-CA), Robert J. Wittman (R-VA), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA) and 44 more.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong114-hr1356 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114