Our Vets Deserve Better Act

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Our Vets Deserve Better Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), within 30 days after this Act's enactment, to meet with specified advisory committees to receive administrative and policy recommendations to improve the VA health care system.

What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Jun 12, 2014

Lists those advisory committees as:

the Advisory Committee on Prosthetics and Special-Disabilities Programs,
the Genomic Medicine Program Advisory Committee,
the Geriatrics and Gerontology Advisory Committee,
the Health Services Research and Development Service Scientific Merit Review Board,
the Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses,
the Special Medical Advisory Group,
the Veterans' Advisory Committee on Rehabilitation, and
the Veterans' Rural Health Advisory Committee.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov

About this bill and sources

Official title: Our Vets Deserve Better Act

Latest action (Jun 27, 2014): Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security · Origin: House · Introduced: Jun 12, 2014

Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)

No recorded floor vote found.