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    <item congress="117" measure-type="hr" measure-number="2093" measure-id="id117hr2093" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2021-03-19" update-date="2021-11-23">
        <title>Veterans and Family Information Act</title>
        <summary summary-id="id117hr2093v49" currentChamber="BOTH" update-date="2021-11-23">
            <action-date>2021-11-22</action-date>
            <action-desc>Public Law</action-desc>
            <summary-text><![CDATA[ <p><b>Veterans and Family Information Act</b></p> <p>This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to make all of its fact sheets available in English, Spanish, Tagalog, and each of the 10 most commonly spoken languages not listed. The bill also requires the VA to establish a publicly available website that provides links to all VA fact sheets. Finally, the VA must report to Congress regarding the utilization of such fact sheets as well as the details of the Language Access Plan of the VA.</p>]]></summary-text>
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        <summary summary-id="id117hr2093v55" currentChamber="SENATE" update-date="2021-11-18">
            <action-date>2021-11-02</action-date>
            <action-desc>Passed Senate</action-desc>
            <summary-text><![CDATA[ <p><b>Veterans and Family Information Act</b></p> <p>This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to make all of its fact sheets available in English, Spanish, Tagalog, and each of the 10 most commonly spoken languages not listed. The bill also requires the VA to establish a publicly available website that provides links to all VA fact sheets. Finally, the VA must report to Congress regarding the utilization of such fact sheets as well as the details of the Language Access Plan of the VA.</p>]]></summary-text>
        </summary>
        <summary summary-id="id117hr2093v53" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2021-07-29">
            <action-date>2021-06-15</action-date>
            <action-desc>Passed House</action-desc>
            <summary-text><![CDATA[<p><b>Veterans and Family Information Act</b></p> <p>This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to make all of its fact sheets available in English, Spanish, Tagalog, and each of the 10 most commonly spoken languages not listed. The bill also requires the VA to establish a publicly available website that provides links to all VA fact sheets. Finally, the VA must report to Congress regarding the utilization of such fact sheets as well as the details of the Language Access Plan of the VA.</p>]]></summary-text>
        </summary>
        <summary summary-id="id117hr2093v00" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2021-05-03">
            <action-date>2021-03-19</action-date>
            <action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
            <summary-text><![CDATA[<p><b>Veterans and Family Information Act</b></p> <p>This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to make all of its fact sheets available in English, Spanish, Tagalog, and each of the 10 most commonly spoken languages not listed. The bill also requires the VA to establish a publicly available website that provides links to all VA fact sheets. Finally, the VA must report to Congress regarding the utilization of such fact sheets as well as the details of the Language Access Plan of the VA.</p>]]></summary-text>
        </summary>
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