Improving Access to Care for Rural Veterans Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
Requires each VA medical facility to partner with a rural medical facility and to brief Congress on implementation.
Who Benefits and How
Rural medical facilities and veterans in rural areas could gain stronger coordination with VA facilities and improved access to services.
Who Bears the Burden and How
VA facilities would face a new partnership and implementation burden, and the department would need to brief Congress.
Key Provisions
- Requires each VA medical facility to partner with a rural medical facility, subject to waiver authority.
- Allows telehealth, co-location, training, emergency, and related partnership activities.
- Requires a congressional briefing on implementation.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires each VA medical facility to partner with a rural medical facility and to brief Congress on implementation.
Key Policy Areas
Healthcare, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
Requires each VA medical facility to partner with a rural medical facility and to brief Congress on implementation.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Veterans and rural medical facilities participating in new VA partnership arrangements
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- VA officials and facilities required to establish, manage, and brief Congress on the partnerships
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
ReportedCommittee on Veterans' Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an …
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
Ms. Duckworth (for herself and Mrs. Blackburn) introduced the following …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
VA officials and facilities required to establish and manage the rural partnerships
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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