H.R. 1124: Veterans Serving Veterans Act of 2021

117th Congress · introduced 2021-02-18 · Armed Forces and National Security · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.

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Where it came from: introduced 2021-02-18 · official record
Who proposed it: Resident Commissioner González-Colón, Jenniffer [R-PR-At Large] · what a sponsor is
What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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What does this mean?

Official title

Veterans Serving Veterans Act of 2021

Plain summary

Veterans Serving Veterans Act of 2021 This bill 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.

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

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Official text

Veterans Serving Veterans Act of 2021

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Resident Commissioner González-Colón, Jenniffer [R-PR-At Large] · 5 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen (R-AS), Clay Higgins (R-LA), Andy Kim (D-NJ)

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Sources

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
Congress.gov
Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-117hr1124.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/117/hr>

Record fed-us-cong117-hr1124 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117