Legislation Archive (Congress 119)

To direct the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct reviews of certain budget requests of the President for the medical care accounts of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

To amend title 38, United States Code, to make permanent certain programs that assist homeless veterans and other veterans with special needs, and for other purposes.

To provide for the continued operation of the Hatch Act Unit of the Office of Special Counsel during a lapse in appropriations, and for other purposes.

To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to furnish an opioid antagonist to a veteran without requiring a prescription or copayment.

To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the collection and analysis of data regarding certain suicides by veterans, and for other purposes.

To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit a report on risk reduction strategies to lower the incidence and prevalence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in veterans.

To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand the set of individuals eligible to transfer Post-9/11 educational assistance to eligible dependents.

To direct the Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, to establish a pilot program to help State prisons and local jails improve the documentation of incarcerated veterans.

To authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to construct a hospital under the jurisdiction of the Department of Veterans Affairs in the Rio Grande Valley sector, Texas.

To amend the Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act of 2022 to direct the Interagency Working Group on Toxic Exposure to conduct research on the diagnosis and treatment of health conditions of descendants of individuals exposed to toxic substances while serving as members of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 401 North Elm Street in Tuskegee, Alabama, as the "Tuskegee Airmen Memorial Post Office".

To name the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Newton, New Jersey, as the "Anthony 'Tony' J. Gallopo VA Clinic".

To establish a task force to conduct oversight of States with rising housing costs and develop a list of best practices for States to implement, and for other purposes.

Defense Biotechnology Strategy Act

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and modify the enhanced premium tax credit, and for other purposes.

To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the VA Work-Study program.

To prohibit the restriction of commercial flights before the restriction of private flights during a lapse in appropriations.

To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the benefits furnished by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to certain individuals who served in the forces of the Philippines and the Philippine Scouts.

To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide covered employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs the right to be represented during examinations that may result in disciplinary actions against the covered employee.

To affirm an agreement, and to nullify certain Executive orders that relate to, collective bargaining by employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and modify the enhanced premium tax credit, and for other purposes.

To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to issue to a veteran a Veterans Bill of Rights, and for other purposes.

To ensure that Farm Services Agency offices stay open during a government shutdown.

Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald.

Honoring and remembering the victims of the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in Rockaway Queens, New York, on November 12, 2001, and extending the sincerest condolences of the citizens of the United States to the families and friends of those individuals.