Women Veterans Health Care Improvement Act of 2008

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to expand and improve health care services available to women veterans, especially those serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, from the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

4/2/2008--Introduced.
Women Veterans Health Care Improvement Act of 2008 - Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to:
(1) conduct a long-term epidemiological study on the health of women veterans who served on active duty in Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom;
(2) assess barriers encountered by women veterans to the provision by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) of comprehensive health care;
(3) assess all health care services and programs provided by the VA for women veterans;
(4) study the health consequences on women veterans of active-duty service in Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom;
(5) provide training and certification for mental health professionals who provide counseling and care to women veterans suffering from sexual trauma;
(6) develop a program of training and certification for VA health care professionals on the effective treatment of women veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD);
(7) carry out a pilot program of child care for certain women veterans receiving health care from VA facilities;
(8) carry out a pilot program of reintegration and readjustment services in group retreat settings for women veterans recently separated from service after a prolonged deployment; and
(9) ensure that there is at least one full-time women veterans program manager at each VA medical center. Authorizes the Secretary to furnish care to a newborn child of a woman veteran receiving VA maternity care for up to 30 days after the birth of the child. Requires women veterans recently separated from service to be included on the Advisory Committee on Women Veterans and the Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans.

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Sponsor

• Sen. Patty Murray [D, WA]
• and 12 Co-Sponsors
  • Sen. Barbara Boxer [D, CA]
  • Sen. Sherrod Brown [D, OH]
  • Sen. Robert Casey [D, PA]
  • Sen. Hillary Clinton [D, NY]
  • Sen. Kay Hutchison [R, TX]
  • Sen. Tim Johnson [D, SD]
  • Sen. Blanche Lincoln [D, AR]
  • Sen. Barbara Mikulski [D, MD]
  • Sen. Lisa Murkowski [R, AK]
  • Sen. John Rockefeller [D, WV]
  • Sen. Charles Schumer [D, NY]
  • Sen. Ron Wyden [D, OR]
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Committees

• Senate Veterans' Affairs

Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to S.2799

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Introduced		Voted on by Senate		Voted on by House		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
April 02, 2008

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• Apr 02, 2008: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
• Introduced on Apr 02, 2008.

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Related Issue Areas:

• Women's health
• Women's health services
• Women veterans
• Women soldiers
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• Women
• Welfare
• War casualties
• Veterans' medical care
• Veterans' hospitals
• South Asia
• Science policy
• Reproduction
• Quality of care
• Preventive medicine
• Pregnant women
• Post-traumatic stress disorder
• Physical examinations
• Minorities
• Military operations
• Military medicine
• Military dependents
• Middle East and North Africa
• Mental health services
• Mental health
• Medicine
• Medical tests
• Medical research
• Medical education
• Medical care
• Maternal health services
• Iraq
• Infants
• Housing
• Homeless
• Higher education
• Health surveys
• Health policy
• Health education
• Hazardous substances
• Governmental investigations
• Federal advisory bodies
• Families
• Executive departments
• Epidemiology
• Education
• Drug abuse treatment
• Drug abuse
• Department of Veterans Affairs
• Defense policy
• Day care
• Continuing education
• Congressional reporting requirements
• Congressional investigations
• Congress and military policy
• Congress
• Children
• Birth defects
• Armed forces
• Afghanistan
• Access to health care
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