3.0.0 2984 2022-02-03T05:09:22Z 2022-02-03T05:09:22Z Senate S S 2008-05-06 110 ssva00 Veterans' Affairs Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2008-05-06T22:50:17Z 2008-05-06 ssva00 Veterans' Affairs Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3798-3800) IntroReferral 2008-05-06 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3798) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2008-05-06 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress A000069 Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI] DANIEL AKAKA D HI KOHIKINA Y Armed Forces and National Security Armed forces reserves Biological warfare Birth defects Cemeteries and funerals Chemical warfare Child health Commemorations Congress Congressional oversight Correspondence schools and courses Department of Veterans Affairs Disability evaluation Disabled Education Families Federal law enforcement officers Finance and Financial Sector Government Operations and Politics Government life insurance Government paperwork Health Health insurance Higher education Labor and Employment Leases Long-term care Marriage Medical records Military dependents Military research Minimum wages Monuments and memorials Nursing homes Social Welfare Social security numbers Survivors' benefits Veterans' benefits Veterans' disability compensation Veterans' education Veterans' employment Veterans' hospitals Veterans' medical care Armed Forces and National Security

00 2008-05-06 Introduced in Senate 2008-07-21T21:37:10Z Veterans' Benefits Enhancement Act of 2008 - Revises or adds federal veterans' benefits provisions to, among other things: (1) reduce the waiting period for a veteran's affirmation of enrollment in a correspondence course; (2) eliminate the requirement that a veteran or beneficiary make a separate application for a program change at an educational institution; (3) eliminate a minimum wage-earning requirement in the case of self-employment on-job training; (4) authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to stay adjudication of a veteran's claim when necessary to preserve the integrity of a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)-administered program; (5) authorize memorial headstones or markers for deceased remarried surviving spouses of veterans; (6) make permanent the VA authority to fund contracted medical disability examinations; (7) expand Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance coverage to certain members of the Individual Ready Reserve; (8) allow VA to provide temporary residence assistance grants to active-duty military personnel suffering from a disability incurred in or aggravated by such service; (9) make permanent the consideration of noninstitutional extended care services as covered medical services; (10) make permanent the authority to provide hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care to certain veterans who participated in Department of Defense (DOD) chemical and biological testing; (11) provide third-party payment authority with respect to care furnished to spina bifida-affected children of Vietnam veterans; (12) authorize disclosure of VA medical information to a representative of a patient who lacks decision-making capacity; (13) require VA patients to disclose health-plan information and their Social Security number; (14) expand the authority of VA police officers; and (15) increase from $600,000 to $1 million the threshold before a VA major medical facility lease must receive congressional approval.

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