3.0.0 1934 2022-11-01T13:50:58Z 2022-11-01T13:50:58Z Senate S 2019-06-20 116 ssva00 Veterans' Affairs Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2019-06-20T19:41:53Z 2019-06-20 ssva00 Veterans' Affairs Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. IntroReferral 2019-06-20 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress T000464 Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT] Jon Tester D MT N M001111 Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA] Patty Murray D WA 2019-06-20 True B000944 Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] Sherrod Brown D OH 2019-06-20 True Armed Forces and National Security Disability assistance Health care quality Hospital care Veterans' medical care Veterans' pensions and compensation Armed Forces and National Security 00 2019-06-20 Introduced in Senate 2020-07-23T15:59:40Z Parity in Veterans Health Care Rights Act

This bill expands eligibility for Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) benefits (including dependency and indemnity compensation) in situations where a veteran has been disabled or died as a result of medical treatment or vocational rehabilitation.

Under the bill, the VA must award such benefits if a disability or death of a veteran was caused by hospital care, a medical service, or an extended care service furnished by a non-VA provider as part of the Veterans Community Care Program. The proximate cause of the disability or death in these situations must have been (1) carelessness, negligence, lack of proper skill, error in judgment, or a similar instance of fault on the part of the provider; or (2) an event that was not reasonably foreseeable.

]]> Parity in Veterans Health Care Rights Act Display Title Parity in Veterans Health Care Rights Act Short Title(s) as Introduced Parity in Veterans Health Care Rights Act Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs for persons disabled by treatment under the Veterans Community Care Program, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s1934is/xml/BILLS-116s1934is.xml 2019-06-20 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. 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.