3.0.0 5032 2022-11-01T05:02:32Z 2022-11-01T05:02:32Z House HR 2019-11-12 116 [Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 180 (Tuesday, November 12, 2019)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]By Mr. HUFFMAN:H.R. 5032.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article IV, Section 3, clause 2 of the United StatesConstitution.[Page H8784]]]> hsvr00 Veterans' Affairs Committee House Standing hsvr03 Health Subcommittee Referred to 2019-12-02T16:17:39Z Referred to 2019-11-12T19:00:49Z 2019-12-02 hsvr03 Health Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Committee 2019-11-12 Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsvr00 Veterans' Affairs Committee 2019-11-12 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2019-11-12 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress H001068 Rep. Huffman, Jared [D-CA-2] Jared Huffman D CA 2 N C001055 Rep. Case, Ed [D-HI-1] Ed Case D HI 1 2019-11-12 True G000576 Rep. Grothman, Glenn [R-WI-6] Glenn Grothman R WI 6 2019-11-12 True S001208 Rep. Slotkin, Elissa [D-MI-8] Elissa Slotkin D MI 8 2019-11-15 False Armed Forces and National Security Congressional oversight Employee hiring Executive agency funding and structure Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management Government studies and investigations Health care coverage and access Health care quality Health facilities and institutions Health personnel Health programs administration and funding Higher education Medical education Rural conditions and development Student aid and college costs Veterans' medical care Armed Forces and National Security 00 2019-11-12 Introduced in House 2020-05-19T16:33:25Z Recruiting in Underserved Rural Areas and Localities for Veterans Act or the RURAL Veterans Act

This bill addresses the recruitment of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care professionals in rural areas. Specifically, the bill requires the VA to establish the Office of Rural Recruitment to improve the recruitment of health care professionals for rural and highly rural community-based outpatient clinics and medical centers of the VA.

The bill also requires the director of each Veterans Integrated Service Network that contains at least one rural or highly rural community-based outpatient clinic to annually develop and maintain a strategy to recruit health care professionals.

The Office of Rural Recruitment shall conduct a study on the feasibility of a scholarship program for health care professionals to attend the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in exchange for service as full-time employees at a rural or highly rural community-based outpatient clinic or medical center of the VA for a specified period of time.

The VA shall establish the Rural Health Quality and Access Fellowship program to provide fellowships to health care professionals at the graduate or post-graduate level who serve on a short-term basis as full-time employees at a rural or highly rural community-based outpatient clinic or medical center of the VA and conduct research on (1) improving the quality of rural health care, (2) access to health care in rural areas, and (3) recruitment and retention of health care professionals in rural areas.

]]> RURAL Veterans Act Display Title RURAL Veterans Act Official Title as Introduced To amend chapter 73 of title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a rural recruitment office within the Department of Veterans Affairs to recruit health care professionals, and for other purposes. Introduced in House IH Short Title(s) as Introduced RURAL Veterans Act Introduced in House IH Short Title(s) as Introduced Recruiting in Underserved Rural Areas and Localities for Veterans Act Introduced in House IH Introduced in House 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116hr5032ih/xml/BILLS-116hr5032ih.xml 2019-12-02 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. 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.