Hearing
Legislative Hearing on: Discussion Draft, Standardizing Treatment and Referral Times Act; Discussion Draft, No Wrong Door for Veterans Act; Discussion Draft, Providing Veterans Essential Medications Act; Discussion Draft, Veterans Supporting Prosthetics Opportunities and Recreational Therapy Act; Discussion Draft, To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the Comptroller General of the United States to report on certain funding shortfalls in the Department of Veterans Affairs; H.R. 217, CHIP IN for Veterans Act (Rep. Bacon); H.R. 1107, Protecting Veteran Access to Telemedicine Services Act of 2025 (Rep. Womack); H.R. 1336, The Veterans National Traumatic Brain Injury Treatment Act (Rep. Murphy); H.R. 658, To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish qualifications for the appointment of a person as a marriage and family therapist, qualified to provide clinical supervision, in the Veterans Health Administration; Discussion Draft, Copay Fairness for Veterans Act; Discussion Draft, Saving Our Veterans Lives Act; and Discussion Draft, Women Veterans Cancer Care Coordination Act.
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- Title
- Legislative Hearing on: Discussion Draft, Standardizing Treatment and Referral Times Act; Discussion Draft, No Wrong Door for Veterans Act; Discussion Draft, Providing Veterans Essential Medications Act; Discussion Draft, Veterans Supporting Prosthetics Opportunities and Recreational Therapy Act; Discussion Draft, To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the Comptroller General of the United States to report on certain funding shortfalls in the Department of Veterans Affairs; H.R. 217, CHIP IN for Veterans Act (Rep. Bacon); H.R. 1107, Protecting Veteran Access to Telemedicine Services Act of 2025 (Rep. Womack); H.R. 1336, The Veterans National Traumatic Brain Injury Treatment Act (Rep. Murphy); H.R. 658, To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish qualifications for the appointment of a person as a marriage and family therapist, qualified to provide clinical supervision, in the Veterans Health Administration; Discussion Draft, Copay Fairness for Veterans Act; Discussion Draft, Saving Our Veterans Lives Act; and Discussion Draft, Women Veterans Cancer Care Coordination Act
- Committee
- Committee on Veterans' Affairs / Subcommittee on Health
- Date line
- Tuesday, March 11, 2025 (2:15 PM)
- Published
- February 28, 2025 at 02:20 PM
- Last updated
- August 1, 2025 at 02:35 PM
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Texas's 29th Congressional District; the House witness record lists her as a Member of Congress for a January 2026 Transportation and Infrastructure Member Day hearing.
Dr. Thomas O'Toole
Deputy Assistant Undersecretary for Health for Clinical Services, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health AdministrationDr. Antoinette Shappell
Deputy Assistant Under Secretary for Health for Patient Services, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health AdministrationDr. Thomas Emmendorfer
Pharmacy Benefits Management, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration
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Dr. Andrew Kozminski
Medical Director of Hyperbaric Medicine, University of Iowa Health Care
University of Iowa Health CareMr. Ed Harries
President, National Association of State Veterans Homes
National Association of State Veterans HomesMr. Jon Retzer
Deputy National Legislative Director for Health, Disabled American Veterans
Disabled American VeteransDocuments
Source materials
bill textH.R.217, CHIP IN for Veterans Act (Rep. Bacon)bill textH.R.658, To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish qualifications for the appointment of a person as a marriage and family therapist, qualified to provide clinical supervision, in the Veterans Health Administration (Rep. Brownley)bill textDiscussion Draft, To amend title 38, United States Code, to eliminate copayments by the Department of Affairs for medicines relating to preventive health services, and for other purposes (Rep. Underwood)bill textDiscussion Draft, To amend title 39, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a program to furnish to certain individuals items used for the secure storage of firearms, and for other purposes (Rep. Deluzio)bill textDiscussion Draft, to designate Regional Breast and Gynecologic Cancer Care Coordinators to expand the work of the Breast and Gynecologic Oncology System of Excellence at the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.bill textH.R. 1969, To amend and reauthorize the Staff Sergeant Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (Rep. Miller-Meeks)bill textH.R. 1971, To amend title 38, United States Code, to include adaptive prostheses and terminal devices for sports and other recreational activities in the medical services furnished to eligible veterans by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (Rep. Miller-Meeks)bill textDiscussion Draft, To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a pilot program to furnish hyperbaric oxygen to a veteran who has a traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder (Rep. Murphy)bill textDiscussion Draft, To amend title 38, Untied States Code, to authorize certain health care professional employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs to deliver, distribute, or dispense to veterans certain controlled medications via telemedicine under certain conditions, and for other purposes (Rep. Womack)bill textDiscussion Draft, To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the Comptroller General of the United States to report on certain funding shortfalls in the Department of Veterans Affairsbill textH.R. 1972, To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish the period during which the referral of a veteran, made by a health care provider of the Department of Veterans Affairs, to a non-Department provider, for care or services under the Community Care Program of such Department, remains valid (Rep. Miller-Meeks)bill textH.R. 1970, To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to reimburse State homes for the cost of, or to furnish to State homes, certain costly medications provided to veterans who receive nursing home care in such State homes, and for other purposes (Rep. Miller-MeeksnoticeHearing NoticeDocumentStatement for the Record - Veterans Healthcare Policy InstituteDocumentStatement for the Record - Paralyzed Veterans of AmericaDocumentStatement for the Record - AFGEDocumentDocument for the Record - Rep. MurphyDocumentStatement for the Record - Trajector MedicalDocumentStatement for the Record - American Association for Marriage and Family TherapyDocumentWitness ListtranscriptFinal Printed Hearing