3.0.0 426 2023-01-11T13:34:45Z 2023-01-11T13:34:45Z Senate S 2017-02-16 115 ssva00 Veterans' Affairs Committee Senate Standing Hearings by 2017-07-11T18:30:46Z Referred to 2017-02-16T21:09:41Z Grow Our Own Directive: Physician Assistant Employment and Education Act of 2017 115 3262 HR 2017-07-31 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Related bill CRS 2017-07-11 ssva00 Veterans' Affairs Committee Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 115-320. Committee 2017-02-16 ssva00 Veterans' Affairs Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. IntroReferral 2017-02-16 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress T000464 Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT] Jon Tester D MT N B001230 Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI] Tammy Baldwin D WI 2017-02-16 True B000944 Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] Sherrod Brown D OH 2017-02-16 True S001194 Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI] Brian Schatz D HI 2017-02-17 False M000934 Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS] Jerry Moran R KS 2017-02-27 False H001076 Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH] Maggie Hassan D NH 2017-11-16 False Armed Forces and National Security Department of Veterans Affairs Employee hiring Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management Health personnel Medical education Student aid and college costs Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation Veterans' medical care Armed Forces and National Security 00 2017-02-16 Introduced in Senate 2017-09-14T13:52:23Z Grow Our Own Directive: Physician Assistant Employment and Education Act of 2017

This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to carry out a five-year Grow Our Own Directive (or G.O.O.D.) pilot program to provide educational assistance to certain former members of the Armed Forces for education and training as VA physician assistants in exchange for recipients agreeing to be employed as physician assistants for the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) for a specified period at a VA medical facility located in a community designated as a medically underserved population in a state with a per capita population of veterans of more than 9%.

The VA shall: (1) provide at least 35 new scholarships under the pilot program each year, and (2) ensure that at least 25 new scholarships are awarded each year under its health professional and employee incentive scholarship programs for the education and training of physician assistants.

The VA must: (1) establish specified standards to improve its use of educational assistance programs to educate and hire physician assistants, and (2) increase for each of the next five years the scholarship amounts provided under such programs.

The bill establishes pay grades and competitive pay requirements for physician assistants. The VA must implement a national strategic plan for the retention and recruitment of VA physician assistants that includes competitive pay in comparison to the pay of physician assistants in the private sector.

]]> Grow Our Own Directive: Physician Assistant Employment and Education Act of 2017 Display Title Grow Our Own Directive: Physician Assistant Employment and Education Act of 2017 Official Title as Introduced A bill to increase educational assistance provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs for education and training of physician assistants of the Department, to establish pay grades and require competitive pay for physician assistants of the Department, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Grow Our Own Directive: Physician Assistant Employment and Education Act of 2017 Introduced in Senate 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s426is/xml/BILLS-115s426is.xml 2017-07-11 Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 115-320. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.