Comprehensive Veterans Benefits Improvements Act of 2007

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve and enhance compensation and pension, health care, housing, burial, and other benefits for veterans, and for other purposes.

5/8/2007--Introduced.
Comprehensive Veterans Benefits Improvements Act of 2007 - Makes various changes or additions to veterans' compensation, pension, health care, housing, burial, and other benefits, including:
(1) a report on veterans who were misclassified as not being catastrophically disabled;
(2) a pilot program on veterans' lung cancer screening;
(3) a repeal of the prohibition against the concurrent receipt of veterans' disability compensation or pension and military retired pay;
(4) an increase in the rates of veterans' disability compensation;
(5) a repeal of the reduction of Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) annuities by the amount of veterans' dependency and indemnity compensation (DIC) received;
(6) a report on the adequacy of DIC for survivors of veterans who die from service-connected disabilities;
(7) a reduction in premiums under the service-disabled veterans life insurance program;
(8) an increase in the veterans' burial plot allowance;
(9) an FY2008 authorization of appropriations for the state cemetery grants program;
(10) an increase in grant amounts for specially adapted housing for veterans;
(11) an increased coverage amount under the veterans' mortgage life insurance program;
(12) adjusted veterans' home loan fees;
(13) judicial review of the adoption or revision of veterans' disability ratings;
(14) establishment of the DOD/VA Clinical Information Data Exchange Bureau;
(15) a study and report concerning the disability ratings systems of the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA); and
(16) a report on the provision of assisted living benefits for veterans.


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Sponsor

• Sen. Bernard Sanders [I, VT]

Committees

• Senate Veterans' Affairs

Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to S.1326

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Introduced		Voted on by Senate		Voted on by House		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
May 08, 2007

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• May 08, 2007: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
• May 08, 2007: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5719-5720)
• Introduced on May 08, 2007.
• May 08, 2007: Introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5719-5720)

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Related Issue Areas:

• Veterans
• Administrative remedies
• Armed forces
• Authorization
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• Budgets
• Congress
• Congressional reporting requirements
• Defense policy
• Disability evaluation
• Disabled
• Finance
• Government life insurance
• Grants-in-aid
• Health information systems
• Housing
• Housing for the disabled
• Insurance premiums
• Judicial review
• Law
• Lung cancer
• Medical care
• Medical records
• Medical screening
• Medicine
• Military cemeteries and funerals
• Military medicine
• Military pensions
• Mortgages
• Pensions
• Survivors' benefits
• Veterans' benefits
• Veterans' disability compensation
• Veterans' medical care
• Veterans' pensions

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July 27, 2007 VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

... and your voting constituent, I ask for your co-sponsorship and active support of S. 1326, the Comprehensive Veterans Benefits Improvements Act of 2007. ...

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